Ukrainians have been laying flowers, lighting candles, and remembering the fallen at ceremonies in towns and cities across the country marking the fourth anniversary of Russias full-scale invasion.

In Kyiv, there was a moment of silence for war dead. In Lviv, children packed a church to join prayers for peace. InBucha, there were bitter memories of brutal atrocities carried out by Russian soldiers while they briefly occupied the town in 2022.

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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy released a video in which, for the first time, he presented the bunker where he spent the first hours of the war -- and said that Russian leader Vladimir Putin had not achieved his goals.

"He has not broken Ukrainians. He has not won this war. We have preserved Ukraine, and we will do everything to secure peace and justice," he said in thevideo addressreleased on February 24.

Zelenskyy also said he would like to welcome US President Donald Trump to Ukraine.

"Only by visiting Ukraine and seeing our life and struggle with one's own eyes, feeling our people and this sea of pain, can one understand what this war is really about," he added.

Ukraine has entered the fifth year of Russias all-out invasion, the largest armed conflict in Europe since World War II, with its troops holding the line against grinding attacks in frozen trenches while its civilians face nightly mass drone and missile strikes that have cut off energy supplies amid bitter winter weather.

Even on the day of the anniversary, Russian missiles and drones rained down on Zaporizhzhya in eastern Ukraine, injuring several people.