September 19, 2024

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Fill silence together with your track, to inform our tale: Ukraine’s Zelenskyy in video message at Grammys

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made a wonder look on the sixty fourth Annual Grammy Awards on Sunday. He started his speech by way of announcing, “The warfare. What’s extra reverse to track.”

In a pre-taped video message, Zelenskyy known as for enhance for his nation which is scuffling with the Russian invasion. He requested most sensible artists on the Grammys to “fill the silence” introduced by way of warfare with track.

“The warfare. What’s extra reverse to track. The silence of ruined towns and killed other folks, our kids draw swooping rockets, no longer capturing stars,” Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated within the message that aired at the display Sunday.

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“Our musicians put on frame armour as a substitute of tuxedos. They sing to the wounded in hospitals — even to those that can not listen them. However the track will ruin via anyway,” Zelenskyy stated.

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“We protect our freedom to reside, to like, to sound,” he stated.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy in comparison the Russian invasion to a perilous silence. He stated, “On our land, we’re combating Russia, which brings terrible silence with its bombs. The useless silence. Fill the silence together with your track, fill it lately to inform our tale.”

“Inform the reality concerning the warfare to your social networks, on TV. Enhance us by any means you’ll — any, however no longer silence,” he stated in his Grammy message. “After which peace will come,” Zelenskyy stated.

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Zelenskyy ended his speech, announcing Ukrainian towns beneath assault “have a dream of dwelling, and loose”.

“To all our towns the warfare is destroying — Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Volnovakha, Mariupol and others: They’re legends already, however they have got a dream of them dwelling, and loose.”

“Unfastened such as you, at the Grammy level,” Zelenskyy stated.

Ukraine is beneath assault by way of Russian forces after Russian President Vladimir Putin declared warfare at the nation on February 24 this yr. The whole-scale invasion was once introduced to “demilitarise” and “denazify” Ukraine, Putin had stated. Since then, hundreds had been killed and hundreds of thousands have fled in Ukraine.