"Today marks exactly four years since Putin started his three-day push to take Kyiv", Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in his special address on Tuesday, as his country entered the fifth year of Russia's all-out war.
"Looking back at the beginning of the invasion and reflecting on today, we have every right to say: we have defended our independence, we have not lost our statehood, Putin has not achieved his goals," Zelenskyy stated.