KIEV (UCRAINA) (ITALPRESS) – Kiev has marked the fourth anniversary of the Russian invasion on a large scale with a double dimension, solemn and strategic, transforming the commemoration into a political-military summit of continental importance: in Piazza Santa Sofia the President Volodymyr Zelensky paid tribute to the fallen along with the Ukrainian institutional leadership and to an unprecedented delegation of European leaders, while in parallel the so-called military coordination has gathered Presidents of the European Commission and the European Council, Ursula von der Leyen and António Costa, joined by Finnish President Alexander Stubb and the first ministers of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia, Iceland and Croatia, confirming an increasingly central Nordic-Baltic axis in the European posture to Moscow. Zelensky’s intervention reiterated that the safety of air space and the maintenance of energy infrastructure remain unreliable operational priorities, defining the defense of the country “preliminary condition for authentic peace”, while partners ensured continuity in political assistance and support, with the stated goal of a “just and lasting” solution based on Ukrainian territorial integrity and international law.
At the same time, in Brussels, NATO celebrated an official ceremony at the Alliance headquarters and convened an extraordinary session of the NATO-Ukraine Council: Secretary-General Mark Rutte, side by side with the President of the Military Committee, Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone, defined Ukraine “a nation of heroes”, stressing that, despite the initial ambitions of the Kremlin, Russia did not achieve the strategic objectives declared in 2022 and that the.
The political framework is interwoven with the analytical one: according to the estimates of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, from the beginning of the invasion the overall losses between Russians and Ukrainians – between fallen, injured and dispersed – could have reached the threshold of 1,8 million military, with a particularly high tribute for Moscow, while for Kiev the figures remain the subject of official declarations more contained and hardly verifiable independently; on the civil side, United.
On the territorial level, the evaluations of the Instituto for the Study of War indicate that the Russian Federation currently controls about 19.4 percent of the Ukrainian territory, facing marginal advances in the last year, configuring a conflict of logging to the very high consumption of men and means; the analysis of the Kiel Institute for the World Economy also signals a remodelling of aid in 2025, with a contraction of significant US military assistance and an increase. The conflict has generated an exodus of nearly six million Ukrainian citizens abroad, largely welcomed in the European Union, and millions of internally displaced persons, while the World Health Organization has recorded thousands of attacks on healthcare facilities and services, with a further surge in the last year, an element that qualifies the war also in terms of the systemic impact on civil infrastructure.
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