Joe Biden told reporters that he was expressing his “moral outrage” when he said that Vladimir Putin “cannot remain in power,” but it did not reflect a change in U.S. policy.
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The Clash‘s ‘London Calling’ into a protest song against the Russian invasion – listen to ‘Kyiv Calling’ below.Ukraine has officially severed diplomatic ties with Russia, and declared martial law, after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an attack on the neighbouring nation on February 24. Since then, The United Nations’ Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has estimated that the conflict has claimed 1,900 civilian casualties.
The UN (via BBC) also estimates that there are nearly 1.85million internally displaced people within Ukraine.Three-piece band Beton’s new song was recorded in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on Thursday and Friday (March 17-18). It was mixed and mastered by Danny Saber, who worked with Clash frontman Joe Strummer prior to his death in 2002.The accompanying video for ‘Kyiv Calling’ features footage shot by the band’s family and friends of the war across Ukraine.
Watch it below.All proceeds from the song will go to the citizen-led organisation FURM (Free Ukraine Resistance Movement), which you can donate to directly here.Discussing the idea for the song, Beton vocalist Andriy Zholob said: “Many Ukrainian musicians are now on battlefields or in territorial defence. This time they’ve changed guitars to guns.
We hope this song shows Ukrainians’ spirit and our defiance to Russian aggression.“The Clash were one of our inspirations when we fell in love with punk rock and music in general, there is no snobbery or pretentiousness to the music, they had something to say and voiced their opinions against human anger. London Calling epitomises all of that and we are very happy to be able to take this iconic classic and turn it into our own anthem with new meaning and life.”The singer added:
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Billy Bragg has criticised Ukrainian band Beton for their supposed far-right links, after they released a cover of The Clash’s ‘London’s Calling’.Last week, the Ukrainian punk band reworked The Clash’s iconic track to create ‘Kyiv Calling’, a protest song against the Russian invasion.Ukraine has officially severed diplomatic ties with Russia, and declared martial law, after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered an attack on the neighbouring nation on February 24. Since then, The United Nations’ Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has estimated that the conflict has claimed 1,900 civilian casualties.
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