On this day last year, Vladimir Putin ordered his troops across the Ukraine border, marking the start of a deadly conflict which has taken the lives of thousands.
An exact death toll for the number of people lost to the war has not been calculated, but estimates reveal that thousands of Ukrainian civilians and soldiers from both sides as well as abroad have been killed since the invasion began on February 24, 2021.
But the estimates are likely to be much lower than the actual number of casualties.
