Fill silence along with your music, to inform our story: Ukraine’s Zelenskyy in video message at Grammys

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy made a shock look on the sixty fourth Annual Grammy Awards on Sunday. He started his speech by saying, “The war. What is more opposite to music.”

In a pre-taped video message, Zelenskyy known as for help for his nation which is battling the Russian invasion. He requested prime artists on the Grammys to “fill the silence” introduced by conflict with music.

“The war. What is more opposite to music. The silence of ruined cities and killed people, our children draw swooping rockets, not shooting stars,” Volodymyr Zelenskyy stated within the message that aired on the present Sunday.

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“Our musicians wear body armour instead of tuxedos. They sing to the wounded in hospitals — even to those who can’t hear them. But the music will break through anyway,” Zelenskyy stated.

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“We defend our freedom to live, to love, to sound,” he stated.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy in contrast the Russian invasion to a lethal silence. He stated, “On our land, we are fighting Russia, which brings horrible silence with its bombs. The dead silence. Fill the silence with your music, fill it today to tell our story.”

“Tell the truth about the war on your social networks, on TV. Support us in any way you can — any, but not silence,” he stated in his Grammy message. “And then peace will come,” Zelenskyy stated.

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Zelenskyy ended his speech, saying Ukrainian cities below assault “have a dream of living, and free”.

“To all our cities the war is destroying — Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Volnovakha, Mariupol and others: They are legends already, but they have a dream of them living, and free.”

“Free like you, on the Grammy stage,” Zelenskyy stated.

Ukraine is below assault by Russian forces after Russian President Vladimir Putin declared conflict on the nation on February 24 this 12 months. The full-scale invasion was launched to “demilitarise” and “denazify” Ukraine, Putin had stated. Since then, hundreds have been killed and tens of millions have fled in Ukraine.