“Ukraine is not the country you can conquer in three days. The Russians couldn’t break us in 300 years – they tried, but they couldn’t.”

These are the words of 34-year-old Yevheniia Bondini, a Kyiv resident reflecting on Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine three years on.

Others in Kyiv, like Viktoriia Blinova, 42, share the same sentiment.

She tells the Reuters news agency: “They will never get Kyiv. We are strong, we are an absolutely unbreakable nation. So they [Russians] shouldn’t dream about Kyiv in three days”, referring to comments from the Kremlin in 2022.

Inna Zaitseva, 34, says: “My hands are shaking. We have always been here, we didn’t go anywhere. We have always stayed in our country and believed in our warriors and our President. We believe him.”

“We have stood and we will stand. We have to do our part. Hope? We have to work for victory,” says Blinova.

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