26 years ago, on March 24, 1999, #NATO launched an illegal act of #aggression against the Federal Republic of #Yugoslavia. Without @UN Security Council approval, a military alliance decided to place itself above #InternationalLaw, above justice, above humanity. What followed were 78 days of relentless destruction of a sovereign state without justice, without accountability — only #victims.

Hospitals, schools, bridges, and cultural monuments were reduced to rubble. People were killed in their homes, in marketplaces, on trains, in hospital beds. Civilian casualties were cynically dismissed as "collateral damage." Around 2,500 people were killed, among them many children. This was no "humanitarian intervention"—it was a brutal display of force that marked the beginning of the erosion of international law. With the attack on the #FRY, the rule of law was replaced by the rule of force, and the world continues to feel the consequences to this day. #Serbia has not forgotten. The country that endured aggression in 1999 now stands, with full moral credibility, as a defender of international law, the #UNCharter, and true #multilateralism. We remain steadfast in that commitment—Serbia will continue to be a pillar of #peace and #stability in the region, but we will not remain silent in the face of force and injustice. Our victims deserve #remembrance, and the world deserves the #truth.