One year of war against Ukraine: Acting together to ensure international law will prevail

Friday, February 24, 2023 | 360 Views |

Resolute: Borrell says the EU stands firm in its support of Ukraine PIC: MONIRUL BHUIYAN

24 February 2022 will forever be recalled as the day when Russia started its brutal, unprovoked and illegal invasion of Ukraine. This was and remains a case of pure aggression and a clear-cut breach of the UN Charter.

This war is neither ‘just a European issue’, nor is it about the ‘West versus the rest’. It is about the kind of world we all want to live in: no one is safe in a world where the illegal use of force – by a nuclear power and permanent member of the Security Council – would somehow be ‘normalised’.

That is why international law must be enforced everywhere to protect everyone from power politics, blackmail and military attack.

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