The Pink Floyd star argued that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was provoked throughout an deal with to diplomats in New York.
Ukraine has denounced Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters for claiming that Russia’s invasion was “not unprovoked”.
In an deal with to the United Nations Safety Council delivered on Wednesday at Russia’s invitation, Waters stated he condemned Moscow’s offensive, describing it as “unlawful”.
However the 79-year-old – who has beforehand praised Russian President Vladimir Putin and criticised the West for supplying Ukraine with arms – then implied that Kyiv and its allies have been partly accountable for the battle as effectively.
“The Russian invasion of Ukraine was not unprovoked. So I additionally condemn the provocateurs within the strongest potential phrases,” Waters instructed diplomats in New York Metropolis by way of video hyperlink, with out referring to any particular people, teams or international locations.
“The one smart plan of action as we speak is to name for a right away ceasefire in Ukraine,” he added.
Waters’s feedback drew a pointy rebuke from Ukraine’s ambassador to the UN, Sergiy Kyslytsya, who accused the musician of trying to “whitewash” Moscow’s actions.
“In 1979, Pink Floyd got here up with a tune, One other Brick within the Wall. The identical yr the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan and after the invasion was condemned by Pink Floyd” Kyslytsya stated.
“It's ironic, if not hypercritical, that Mr. Walters makes an attempt now to whitewash one other invasion. How unhappy for his former followers to see him accepting the function of only a brick within the wall. The wall of Russian disinformation and propaganda.”
America, which is Ukraine’s most distinguished backer within the West, additionally denounced Waters.
“We’ve been introduced collectively as we speak as soon as once more to listen to one other model of why Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine is definitely the fault of Ukraine or Ukraine’s companions. Or, in Mr Waters phrases, Ukraine mates who're provocateurs,” Richard Mills, the US deputy ambassador to the UN, instructed the 15-member Safety Council.
“We unequivocally reject the victim-blaming notion that Ukraine’s self-defence is the impediment to ending this conflict. Nobody needs peace in Ukraine greater than Ukrainians themselves. It's Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity that has been violated, not Russia’s,” he stated.
In September final yr, Waters argued towards the Western provide of weapons and accused Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of permitting “excessive nationalism” to flourish.
In an open letter to Zelenskyy’s spouse Olena Zelenska, Waters wrote: “Sadly, your outdated man agreed to these totalitarian, anti-democratic dismissals of the need of the Ukrainian folks, and the forces of maximum nationalism that had lurked, malevolent, within the shadows, have, since then, dominated the Ukraine.”
“They've, additionally since then, crossed any variety of crimson strains that had been set out fairly clearly over numerous years by your neighbours the Russian Federation and in consequence they, the acute nationalists, have set your nation on the trail to this disastrous conflict,” he added.
Russia calls its actions in Ukraine a “particular army operation” designed to “demilitarise and de-Nazify” the nation.
Kyiv and its Western allies reject Moscow’s rationales, arguing that Russia is waging a conflict of aggression geared toward seizing land and subjugating Ukraine.
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