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This Is Why

A year of war: Has Putin's 'special operation' in Ukraine failed?

This Is Why

Sky News

News, News Commentary, Daily News

4.0552 Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

On 24 February 2022, Vladimir Putin sent up to 200,000 soldiers into Ukraine, sparking Europe's biggest movement of refugees since World War Two. The Russian president declared his goal was to "demilitarise and denazify" Ukraine and not occupy it by force.

With Ukraine forming closer ties to the West and an estimated 180,000 Russian soldiers killed or wounded, we look back at the changes of the last 12 months and what may come next.

On the Sky News Daily, Sally Lockwood talks to Sky's security and defence correspondent Deborah Haynes who is in Kyiv, and Ed Arnold, a research fellow for European security at the military think tank RUSI, about how Russia's aims have changed.

Podcast producer: Rosie Gillott
Interviews producer: Alex Edden
Junior podcast producer: Charlie Bell
Editor: Philly Beaumont

Transcript

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legacy to find out how. This week marks a year since Russia invaded Ukraine. I've been to the country

1:07.1

three times since reporting on the war and I've seen Ukrainians go through different waves of emotion.

1:12.6

In March, there was a real sense of panic,

1:15.6

with families scrambling to flee the country on packed trains.

1:19.6

Children, looking simply shell-shocked,

1:22.6

as they sat on bags of their belongings on station platforms.

1:26.6

We're not making plans at this point.

1:29.1

We fled because it was too scary there.

1:31.6

In July, I was amazed at how different things felt,

1:35.1

with life returning to the streets of Keeve.

1:37.9

Despite the nighttime curfew, missile strikes,

1:41.5

and the regular sound of air raid sirens,

1:44.2

restaurants had reopened.

1:45.8

There was even live music in the street again.

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