NATO attempt to destroy Serbia failed, Vucic says

PROKUPLJE, Serbia — Serbia will never surrender its province of Kosovo and Metohija nor join the NATO alliance, said Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic on Sunday at a commemoration event marking the 25th anniversary of the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia.

On the Remembrance Day for the Victims of the NATO Aggression on Yugoslavia, people gathered in Prokuplje, some 260 kilometers south of Belgrade, to pay tribute to the casualties of the NATO bombings.

"They (NATO) wanted to destroy our homeland, to destroy Serbia and dismember it, but they failed," Vucic said.