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Ukraine: Where the war stands three years after Russia’s full-scale invasion

From the battlefield to the negotiating table

Three years after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, tens of thousands of people have died and hundreds of thousands more have been injured. Now U.S. President Donald Trump thinks he can broker peace by negotiating directly with Russia’s president Vladimir Putin.

Vitaliy Shevchenko, ´óÏó´«Ã½ Monitoring’s Russia editor, explains how the war started and how severe it has become, assesses some of the misinformation that President Trump has repeated over the past week, and unpacks what we know about the proposed peace plan.

A generation of young people have had to come of age during the war. We hear from three of them — Maryna, Olga and Volodymyr. They explain how their lives have changed, how they feel about President Trump’s recent comments, and how they keep hope alive.

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Presenter: Hannah Gelbart
Producers: William Lee Adams and Adam Chowdhury
Editor: Verity Wilde

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