Russia-Ukraine conflict enters third year amid peace talks

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As the Russia-Ukraine war continues into its third year, the conflict sees rising casualties. Ukrainian soldier Andrei Rublyuk, severely injured, returns with prosthetics to the frontlines. The war's persistence defies early expectations, with Ukraine eyeing NATO membership despite ongoing international sanctions.

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00:00While leaders are trying to look for a peace formula remember the fact is people have already died soldiers and civilians alike

00:06Especially in Ukraine and casualties in Russia too as your Donald Trump says this war will come to an end details in this

00:13Andriy Rublyuk doesn't know how long his clinical death lasted after an explosive detonated beneath him

00:37He's an Ukrainian intelligence soldier injured in the war two years ago

00:44Yeah, I approached the ammunition that was supposed to destroy and realized that it had been blown away

00:51I realized that I had been blown up. I realized that life would change forever in this moment

00:57I didn't lose consciousness. I didn't lose it immediately

01:01I still remember how the boys loaded me into the car and how incredibly painful it was

01:09Two years later Rublyuk is back in the war zone

01:14Dressed in military fatigues his missing limbs replaced by prosthetics

01:21Hooks in place of fingers

01:25One leg firmly planted on an artificial limb

01:31And like Ukraine's three lakh and eighty thousand war wounded he's fighting Russian invasion

01:43Ukraine is not the country you can conquer in three days. The Russians couldn't break us in 300 years

01:49They tried but they couldn't

01:52Three years like Kiev in three days

01:54Russians won't get Kiev neither in three days nor in three years. They will never get Kiev

02:00We are strong and we are absolutely unbreakable nation

02:05So the Russians should not dream about Kiev in three days

02:1524th February

02:182022 when the Russian invasion

02:21started

02:22It was supposed to be a quick military operation and the Kremlin believed it would be over in three days

02:33Ratified by the Russian Parliament on the February 22

02:36I decided to conduct a special military operation

02:39It aims to protect people who have been bullied and subjected to genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years

02:48Instead three years have passed by

02:54Russia cornered with sanctions

02:58Wants to take the olive branch

03:00forwarded by Donald Trump and

03:02Ukraine wants NATO membership

03:05Even at the cost of Zelensky stepping down from his elected post of presidency

03:122025

03:16This year must become the year of the beginning of the real and reliable peace

03:21Putin will not gift us this piece nor will he give it away in exchange for something

03:29Russian President Vladimir Putin was presented with a sword and shield on the third anniversary of the Ukraine invasion

03:36by Russia's Grand Mufti

03:39since 24th February

03:422022 Vladimir Putin has ordered tens of thousands of Russian troops into Ukraine

03:49triggering Europe's largest land war since World War two

03:55Bureau report India today

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