Feb 24, 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.
One year on, there is a risk that people become inured to the images of war crimes and atrocities that they see -- because there are so many; that the words we use start to lose their significance -- because we have to repeat them so often; that we get tired and weaken our resolve -- because time is passing and the task at hand is hard.
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