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Monday marks three years since Putin ordered troops into Ukraine. How did we get here?

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Monday marks exactly three years since Vladimir Putin ordered his troops into Ukraine .

He expected his so-called “special military operation’ to last a matter of days.

But Ukrainian forces, backed by the west, have been able to slow down his attempt to seize huge parts of their territory.

Even so, Russia now illegally occupies around a fifth of Ukrainian land.

Ukraine ’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said this week that there have been more than 46,000 Ukrainian deaths on the battlefield, and 390,000 injuries.

The UK 's ministry of defence estimates Russian troops have taken 860,000 losses since the war began.

Ukraine 's European allies nervously wait to see how Trump might decide to settle the war.

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