Russo-Ukra '1,000 Days' War "End Now"...There's a series of protests in each country.

The 1,000th day of the Ukra War...Italy's 'anti-Putin' protests
"Putin, I Can't Forgive You"
Protesters march in the city center..."Russia without Putin!"

[Anchor]
With the war in Ukraine about 1,000 days away, calls have continued in each country to end the war immediately.

As the war has grown due to North Korea's participation in the war, President Putin maintains that he cannot provide the occupied land.

Reporter Lee Kyung-ah reports.

[Reporter]
Inside Putin's face is a ruined Ukraine.

There's also a hand sign that says Putin should be put in jail.

In February 2022, eight years after it occupied Crimea, Russia invaded Ukraine again.

Ukrainians living abroad say they cannot forgive the crimes committed by Russia.

[Maria Meleschko / Ukrainian living in Italy] There must be a just peace. We cannot forgive Putin for not only taking Crimea away in 2014, but for everything he has done over the years.]

Anti-Russian protests continued in Germany as well.

The widow of Alexei Navalny, Russia's leading dissident who died in prison while resisting Putin, also attended.

He stressed that Russia can only be free when it fights after taking the podium.

[Yulia Navalny / Russian dissident widow Navalny] We need to take to the streets now for those in prison, for those who have been killed. You have to keep fighting on their behalf. Russia will definitely be free!]

The war is growing, with reports that North Korea, which is on Russia's side, has sent troops and new weapons.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who spoke to Putin for the first time in two years, said there had been no change in Putin's thinking about the Ukraine war.

They say they can't put out the land in Ukraine occupied by Russia.

[Olaf Scholz / German Chancellor: (After the phone call) I realized that the Russian president's views on the war have not changed much. This is not good news. But this is why it is so important that we clarify the principles.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he would try to achieve an end to the war next year.

The international community is agonizing over what solutions can be created before the Trump administration, which said it would end the war, is launched.

I'm YTN Lee Kyungah.

Video editing: Im Jong-moon