Musicians across the country are swapping their instruments for guns in the fight against Vladimir Putin’s army
“It’s a mirror for your soul,” Helbig told The Daily Beast. Of Amelia’s rendition of thesong, the professor explained, “What is inside of you becomes the type of music that you put out. It’s a very human thing for us to respond to that. A child singing what is probably her favorite song becomes the song she shares with the world.”’s soundtrack.
Other musicians have enlisted to fight the Russians directly, joining the Ukrainian military’s Territorial Defense Forces. They include members of The video amassed more than 7 million views on TikTok alone. Two days later, however, Sheeran responded with a diplomatically noncommittal Instagram Story update, saying he stood with all Ukraianians and that he couldn’t wait to check Antytila’s music out. The band learned soon after that the concert’s organizers weren’t planning to accept their offer.
Around 700,000 people have been forced to flee the city so far, its regional administration has said. The absence of the noise of roughly half of Kharkiv’s population has been replaced with “the sounds of war,” according to Politutchy, which he’s almost become accustomed to. So if you’re trapped in a bomb shelter, Sonevytsky continued, “and you’re trying not to focus on whether the next explosion might be the one that kills your family, I think making music is a beautiful way to try to remind yourself of humanity, and survive that moment.”
On March 26, a few hundred people gathered underground in the Istorychnyi Muzei, a subway station named for the historical museum still, somewhat miraculously, standing above it. The small group of musicians, gathered on the station steps, struck up the Ukrainian national anthem. Some in the audience placed their hands over their hearts. Others held up their phones.
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