When then-comedian Volodymyr Zelenskyy appeared within the music video for Ukrainian band Antytila's 2018 single Lego, nobody may have imagined the course of their subsequent collaboration.
Quick ahead 4 years and Zelenskyy, now Ukraine's president, is in control of a rustic at conflict with its neighbour Russia.
Members of pop-rock group Antytila, in the meantime, have swapped their guitars for weapons and are serving to to defend the capital Kyiv.
“I don’t know what would have occurred to us if another person was in his [Zelenskyy's] place now," lead singer Taras Topolia instructed Euronews' worldwide correspondent Anelise Borges. “We’re happy with our president. He’s a illustration of our nationwide spirit and freedom. Not for a second over the previous few weeks has he doubted that Ukraine would win.”
It's a perception the band additionally shares.
“There’s no method we expect we'll lose. We're prepared for no matter," guitarist Dmytro Zholud stated. “A brand new Ukraine is shaped, and it’s been shaped by us.”
Topolia stated the primary few days of Russia's invasion was a "stunning scenario".
"Nobody in Ukraine anticipated Putin to begin this scale of escalation when he began destroying civil infrastructure, factories, orphanages, industries, residential areas, maternity hospitals… and so forth," he stated.
"And we have been woke up by conflict at round 5 o’clock within the morning, by explosions we may hear from Kyiv and I felt that by the second or third days [that] we obtained used [to] this navy regime. For now, we’re into the fourth week of the conflict and I can say that Ukraine is on monitor."
The band started volunteering for the Ukrainian military in 2014 when Russia annexed Crimea and conflict broke out between Kyiv and Russian-backed separatists in japanese Ukraine. They went again to their music however have picked up arms since Moscow's invasion on 24 February.
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Keyboardist Serhii Vusyk stated the band had determined early on to say goodbye to their households and keep behind in Kyiv.
“We joined the Ukrainian military earlier than the conflict," he stated. "We're dad and mom. I've three children, Taras has three children. Dima has a son.”
Drummer Dmytro Vodovozov and bassist Mykhailo Chyrko aren’t on the frontline. They're doing equally necessary work, organising provides behind the scenes.
“We prepare all the things that they want there," stated Vodovozov. "Now we have a checking account the place we collect cash and purchase all the things that's wanted for our troopers, for our military, defence and nationwide guard."
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