Ukraine’s president, Volodimir Zelenskyy on Sunday evening, April 3, made a shock appearance on the Grammys in Las Vegas, to urge the millions of viewers watching to assist his nation in any approach they can during the Russian invasion.
Talking via videolink, the president who has gotten world acclaim over the best way he has led the nation during war, introduced John Legend, who sang a music alongside Ukrainian artistes Siuzanna Iglidan and Mika Newton for the war-ravaged nation.
Volodymyr Zelensky, in a pre-recorded message, informed the assembled musicians to make use of their voices to demand an end to the warfare, telling them: ‘Anything but silence’.
He mentioned he ‘had a dream’ that those living in the cities of Ukraine may very well be as free as the performers on the Grammys stage, and likened the invasion to a lethal silence threatening to extinguish the dreams and lives of the Ukrainian folks, together with children.
‘Our musicians put on body armor as a substitute of tuxedos. They sing to the wounded in hospitals, even to those that cannot hear them,’ he mentioned.
‘However the music will break by way of anyway.’
‘Fill the silence with your music. Fill it right now to inform our story. Inform the reality concerning the struggle in your social networks, on TV, assist us in any approach you possibly can any, however not silence.
‘After which peace will come to all our cities,’ Zelensky mentioned whereas carrying a khaki t-shirt.
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It was deft for @ZelenskyyUa to make an announcement on the #GRAMMYs … and likewise unhappy that he needed to.
The world plods alongside whereas Ukrainians fall asleep in bomb shelters uncertain in the event that they’ll be shelled of their sleep.
Please watch. #FreedomForUkraine
pic.twitter.com/Skskv8y20U— Nick Knudsen ???? (@NickKnudsenUS) April 4, 2022
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