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Three years into Russia's all out war on Ukraine, the US which has been providing vital support for Kyiv, is now changing tack and is weighing in as a peace broker.
But each warring site has a different vision of peace a and this brings into sharp focus the fate of the territories captured by Moscow.
Russia calls them liberated.
Ukraine calls them temporarily occupied.
It all started with Crimea in 2014.
There was virtually no bloodshed when Crimea was annexed, mainly because the Ukrainian government was in shambles at the time, the Ukrainian military was unable to mount any kind of serious resistance in Moscow at.
The time, I saw slogans on the street saying Krym Nash, Crimea is ours.
It was very much the idea that this was Crimea coming home to its motherland.
Shortly after Crimea was annexed, parts of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions declared independence from Ukraine, a story journalists have been struggling to tell.
I was mock executed for calling them separatists.
They put us against the wall and pretended they were going to kill us.
The occupied territories are in some ways a complete black hole.
We don't know exactly what goes on there.
People who actively support the Ukrainian cause that is being violently destroyed.
You disagree, you die.
It's as simple as that.