Madam President, Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen,
 

For four years, we have been hearing variations of the same thing here. I did not come today to repeat well-known phrases.

Much has already been said about Ukraine and its situation after being attacked by Russia four years ago.
 

And so, perhaps today allow me to offer a different perspective:

 

Not to talk about the war. But to talk about time.

 

Not to talk about Ukraine, but to talk to Russia.
 

I am a Foreign Minister, so I would like to address the Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, even though I know he is not personally present here. Perhaps this will reach him.
 

Minister Lavrov, I address you today not primarily as an adversary. I address you as a person who knows very well that no superpower wins a war against reality.
 

You can temporarily control territory. You can temporarily control the narrative. You can create and control propaganda. But you cannot control time.
 

And time always reveals who spoke of security —and who was dismantling it.

The question today is not whether Russia has security concerns, which you have used for four years to justify your unprecedented aggression against Ukraine.
 

My question is: why should the answer to these alleged concerns be drones and artillery?
 

Concerns may be legitimate. But an invasion never is. Missiles are not an argument. I consider your missiles to be the physical admission of your own failure.
 

Mr. Minister,
 

The strength of a global power does not lie in its ability to start a war. The greatest strength lies in its ability to end one.
 

After four years, the world would like to hear simple answers from you:
What does your victory look like? How many destroyed cities are enough? How many wasted lives are enough?
 

Because if victory has no clear end, then it is not a strategy. It is a cynical autopilot.
Security is not measured by the size of occupied territory. And so I now ask in all seriousness:
 

Is Russia safer today than it was four years ago? Does it have more partners? More stability? Does it have more trust?
 

If the truthful answer is negative—and indeed it is negative—then it is legitimate to ask whether the chosen path really leads to greater security for your country.
 

Wars do not end with a mere stroke of a pen. They end with the question: Why?
 

And one day, it will not be Ukraine answering this question. It will be Russia.

 

Russia, whose heroes once fought side by side with European nations against Nazism. But today, the shadow of a new war falls over their memory.

 

Mr. Lavrov,
 

Great nations can survive defeat. They cannot, however, survive a strategy that has no end.
 

You might seize territory, but you cannot seize the future.
 

History is full of powers that believed time was on their side. In reality, it was always working against them.
 

Every war begins with a plan. But yours survives today only because you lack the courage to admit that this plan has failed.
 

It has been four years, and time is running out. The time has come to finally stop this war.

 

Let me conclude by thanking Ukraine for presenting a draft resolution to this Assembly. The Czech Republic will vote in favour of the resolution, and I would like to ask you all to do the same.

Thank you.