How do I paginate posts by year?

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I used jekyll-archives to create archive pages. Whilst I managed to get the plugin to work, I was unable to find a solution to paginate the archives, so I’m now using just jekyll-paginate-v2 to achieve this objective (I need the archived posts to be paginated.).

The problem is that I’m not sure how to paginate posts based on years. I know paginate-v2 can paginate tags, categories, collections, etc. but I’m not sure how it can paginate years.

I have some 80 posts in 2021, and I want to create a paginated archive containing posts only from 2021. Below is my file structure in which index.html inside the 2021 folder is where I plan to create the archive.

|- _posts
|- blogs
|   - archives
|     - 2021
|       - index.html

I tried the following code and a few others including putting an if outside/inside the for loop, but none of these worked:

{% assign year = post.date | date: "%Y" %}
{% assign posts = paginator.posts | where_exp: "post", "year == '2021'" %}
{% for post in posts %}
	<div class="article-template" style="min-height: 100px;">
		<div id="article-text">
			<div class="article-info">
				<div id="article-time" style="margin-bottom: 20px;">
					<p>{{ post.date | date: "%d %B %Y" }}</p>
				</div>
				<div id="article-title">
					<a href="{{ post.url }}">
				        {{ post.title }}
					</a>
				</div>
			</div>
		</div>
	</div>
{% endfor %}

And,


{% for post in paginator.posts %}
        {% assign year = post.date | date: "%Y" %}
        {% if year == '2021' %}
	<div class="article-template" style="min-height: 100px;">
		<div id="article-text">
			<div class="article-info">
				<div id="article-time" style="margin-bottom: 20px;">
					<p>{{ post.date | date: "%d %B %Y" }}</p>
				</div>
				<div id="article-title">
					<a href="{{ post.url }}">
				        {{ post.title }}
					</a>
				</div>
			</div>
		</div>
	</div>
       {% endif %}
{% endfor %}

It looks a lot harder than I originally thought. What am I missing here?