LAS VEGAS --
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appeared in a video message on the Grammy Awards to ask for help in telling the story of Ukraine's invasion by Russia.
Through the pre-recorded message that aired on the present Sunday, he likened the invasion to a lethal silence threatening to extinguish the goals and lives of the Ukrainian individuals, together with youngsters.
"Our musicians put on physique armor as a substitute of tuxedos. They sing to the wounded in hospitals, even to those that cannot hear them," he stated in English. "However the music will break by anyway."
The Recording Academy, with its companion World Citizen, previous to the ceremony highlighted a social media marketing campaign referred to as "Stand Up For Ukraine" to boost cash and help throughout the humanitarian disaster.
"Fill the silence along with your music. Fill it at this time to inform our story. Inform the reality concerning the battle in your social networks, on TV, help us in any method you may any, however not silence. After which peace will come to all our cities," Zelenskyy stated.
Following Zelenskyy's message, John Legend carried out his track "Free" with Ukrainian musicians Siuzanna Iglidan and Mika Newton, and poet Lyuba Yakimchuk, as photographs from the battle had been proven on screens behind them.
The battle in Ukraine had taken a very grotesque flip Sunday when Ukrainian forces coming into the city of Bucha, not too long ago held by Russian troopers, discovered our bodies of people that had been shot, some after being certain and tortured. Ukrainian authorities accused the Russians of battle crimes, and European leaders referred to as for harder sanctions towards Moscow. Russia stated the atrocities had been dedicated by Ukrainians.
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