The co-founder of the rock group Pink Floyd Roger Waters, invited by Russia to speak before the UN Security Council, denounced the Russian invasion on Wednesday but also those who provoked it, drawing the wrath from Ukraine.
“
The invasion of Ukraine by the Russian Federation was illegal.
I condemn her in the strongest terms
,” the ex-Pink Floyd said via videoconference.
“It is not true that the Russian invasion of Ukraine was unprovoked.
So I also condemn the provocateurs in the strongest terms
, ”added the British musician, who has been controversial in recent months regarding his positions on the war in Ukraine.
His remarks were immediately denounced by the
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"
How sad for his former fans to see him accepting to be just another brick in the wall, in the wall of disinformation and Russian propaganda
", launched Sergiy Kyslytsya in reference to the words of Pink Floyd's famous song,
Another Brick in the Wall
.
“
I'm surprised he didn't inflate a pig-shaped balloon in the Council Chamber today, as he does in many of his concerts.
What would it have been Mr. Waters this time, pigs with swastikas, hammer and sickle?
", he added.
Roger Waters was declared "persona non grata" in Krakow, Poland, and his concerts canceled, for his positions deemed complacent on the war in Ukraine.
A few days ago, one of the lyricists of Pink Floyd, Polly Samson, companion of the singer and guitarist of the group David Gilmour, called him on Twitter an " anti-
Semite
" and a "
apologist for Putin
".
Charges that he refuted “
entirely
” on his Twitter account.
