The participants of U2 are ensuring the folks of Ukraine know that they nonetheless have their backs 3 years after Russia’s invasion.
On Monday (Feb. 24) — the similar date Russia introduced its full-fledged army operation on Ukraine in 2022, successfully sending the international locations right into a conflict this is nonetheless ongoing — Bono shared an emotional piano-accompanied studying of Taras Shevchenko’s “My Pleasant Epistle” at the Irish rock band’s Instagram. “Smash then your chains, in love unite, nor search in international lands the sight of items no longer even discovered above,” the poem dictates. “Then, to your personal area, you are going to see true justice, energy and liberty!”
“All who imagine in freedom and sense the jeopardy we Europeans now to find ourselves in aren’t drowsing simply in this, the 3rd anniversary of the invasion,” Bono wrote in his caption, revealing that he and The Edge had in the beginning despatched the musical studying to Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskyy days after Russia first invaded 3 years in the past.
“Extra to mention about this and different bewilderments later,” added the “Mysterious Techniques” musician.
Bono and his U2 bandmates had been vocal of their toughen of Ukraine all over the rustic’s conflict in opposition to Russia, which started in February 2022 when the latter nation’s president, Vladimir Putin, ordering a couple of assaults on Ukraine’s main towns as a part of a “particular army operation.” In April that 12 months, Irish rockers carried out on a invoice with Celine Dion, Katy Perry and extra stars as a part of a Stand Up for Ukraine reduction display, a month and then Bono and Edge traveled to Kyiv to accomplish Ben E. King’s “Stand via Me” in a metro station.
Ultimate 12 months, Bono additionally paid tribute to past due Russian opposition chief Alexei Navalny — one in all Putin’s maximum outspoken critics who died in Russian jail in February 2024 — throughout one in all U2’s residency presentations at Las Vegas’ The Sphere. “For those other people, freedom is crucial phrase on this planet,” the frontman informed the group on the time. “So necessary that Ukrainians are combating and demise for it, and so necessary that Alexey Navalny selected to offer his up.”
As Ukraine enters a fourth 12 months of combating off Russia, its destiny stays unsure. Many Western leaders amassed in Kyiv Monday to watch the date and, in some instances, pledge extra army help to Zelenskyy’s efforts. Then again, President Donald Trump not too long ago stirred up fear over the USA’ yearslong Biden-era alliance with Ukraine via calling Zelenskyy a “dictator,” whilst keeping up a cordial courting with Putin amid Trump’s pushes for a peace agreement.
See U2’s tribute to Ukraine beneath.
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