Kyiv:
Irish rock star Bono praised Ukraine’s battle for “freedom” throughout a efficiency in a metro station in downtown Kyiv Sunday, the place the U2 frontman additionally issued his personal prayer “for peace”.
From the platform of a Kyiv metro station, the 61-year-old rock icon belted out U2 classics “Sunday Bloody Sunday”, “Need” and “With or with out you”.
“The folks in Ukraine should not simply combating on your personal freedom, you might be combating for all of us who love freedom,” stated Bono throughout a break.
The singer additionally referenced the previous conflicts within the band’s native Eire and the troubles it had with a extra highly effective neighbour.
“We pray that you’ll take pleasure in a few of that peace quickly,” stated Bono.
The shock look by Bono — a very long time humanitarian who continuously lends his voice to a wide range of causes together with the battle towards poverty and AIDS — got here as air raid sirens echoed within the Ukrainian capital and combating raged within the nation’s east.
At one level, Bono invited a Ukrainian soldier to sing alongside who referred to as on the world’s assist for the embattled nation as they lined “Stand by me”.
Bono carried out alongside U2’s guitarist ‘The Edge’ to a small crowd of followers together with fatigue-clad members of Ukraine’s armed forces.
“It is some good feelings, that is all,” stated a member of the Ukrainian territorial forces within the viewers.
“It is a unusual feeling, like being a baby going to first grade,” stated 36-year-old college lecturer, Olesia Bezsmertna, forward of the present.
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