President Volodymyr Zelensky has said Ukraine will do everything to achieve peace and justice, on the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion
European leaders are in Ukraine and commemorative events are being held across the country – here’s the latest as the war enters its fifth year
UK PM Keir Starmer says Ukraine’s allies must “defeat the falsehood that Russia is winning”, while French President Emmanuel Macron describes the war as “a triple failure for Russia”
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov says the goals of what Russia calls the “special military operation” have not been “fully achieved yet”
“It has been a long, hard and deadly four years,” international editor Jeremy Bowen writes – while one Ukrainian man tells our correspondent in Bucha “we need to keep fighting”
No fewer than 55,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed since 24 February 2022 according to Zelensky, but the toll is likely to be higher. BBC analysis estimates Russian military deaths could range from 243,000 and 352,000
