Macinka at UN: no army can break a nation’s will to be free

“No army can break the will of a nation that has decided to be free,” Czech Foreign Minister Petr Macinka told the UN Security Council on the fourth anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. He urged Moscow to end the war not as a sign of weakness, but of responsibility. Macinka compared today’s frontline in Ukraine to a new Berlin Wall and echoed Ronald Reagan’s 1987 call to tear it down. Addressing Russia’s UN ambassador Vasily Nebenzya and President Vladimir Putin, he said aggression rewards fear, not strength, and warned that appeasing it only delays further conflict.