{"id":1417530,"date":"2022-04-04T08:15:36","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T12:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1417530"},"modified":"2022-04-04T08:15:39","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T12:15:39","slug":"body-armor-instead-of-tuxedos-ukraines-zelensky-gives-surprise-grammy-appearance-via-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/body-armor-instead-of-tuxedos-ukraines-zelensky-gives-surprise-grammy-appearance-via-video\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Body Armor Instead Of Tuxedos\u2019: Ukraine\u2019s Zelensky Gives Surprise Grammy Appearance Via Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbody-armor-instead-of-tuxedos-ukraines-zelensky-gives-surprise-grammy-appearance-via-video%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1417530&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/04\/Untitled-design-21-copy-5.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appeared in a surprise video screened at the Grammy Awards on Sunday night that called for more American support, reminding the stars that his nation\u2019s musicians wear \u201cbody armor instead of tuxedos.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The prerecorded video played prior to musician John Legend\u2019s performance of \u201cFree\u201d alongside Ukrainian musicians Siuzanna Iglidan and Mika Newton, also featuring poet Lyuba Yakimchuk. Images from Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine were displayed on the screens during the song.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[T]he war. What is more opposite of music? The silence of ruined cities and killed people. Our children draw swooping rockets, not shooting stars. Over 400 children have been injured and 153 children died, and we will never see them drawing,\u201d Zelensky <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2022\/music\/news\/zelenskyy-grammys-speech-1235215969\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> in the subtitled video.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur parents are happy to wake up in the morning in bomb shelters, but alive. Our loved ones don\u2019t know if we will be together again. The war doesn\u2019t let us choose who survives and who stays in eternal silence,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u26a1\ufe0fUkrainian artists, Zelensky address audience at the Grammys.<\/p>\n<p>President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the audience in a pre-recorded video, wherein he said:\u201cWe are fighting Russia, which brings horrible silence with its bombs. The dead silence. Fill the silence with your music.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DrUzTNqsDO\">pic.twitter.com\/DrUzTNqsDO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KyivIndependent\/status\/1510832052815474690?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 4, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Zelensky then noted the difference between his nation\u2019s musicians and the free world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur musicians wear body armor instead of tuxedos. They sing to the wounded in hospitals. Even to those who can\u2019t hear them. But the music will break through anyway. We defend our freedom. To live. To love. To sound. On our land, we are fighting Russia which brings horrible silence with its bombs. Fill the silence with your music. Fill it today. Tell our story. Tell the truth about the war on your social networks and TV. But not silence,\u201d Zelensky shared.<\/p>\n<p>Academy Awards co-host Amy Schumer first proposed the idea of Zelensky appearing via video on the Oscars in an <a href=\"https:\/\/etcanada.com\/news\/877975\/amy-schumer-pitched-ukraine-president-zelenskyy-to-appear-at-the-oscars\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview<\/a>\u00a0with \u201cThe Drew Barrymore Show.\u201d Instead, Zelensky\u2019s speech became a focal point of the Grammy Awards, a strong contrast with the Oscar Awards that were largely remembered for Will Smith slapping comedian Chris Rock over a joke about Smith\u2019s wife.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate video message on Sunday,\u00a0Zelensky said during an interview on Sunday that Russian soldiers have killed and tortured children as part of their strategy. The Daily Wire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/ukraines-president-russian-soldiers-have-killed-and-tortured-kids-decapitated-people\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>\u201cSome of them have been occupied, and then they destroyed everything. The civilians, the houses, they were stealing washing machines and equipment,\u201d Zelensky said through a translator. \u201cSo, [they] were torturers as well. I think the clips that we shared with you, you have seen for yourself. It\u2019s important for the free people of the United States to have a look at it and see for themselves.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cBefore the war, when there was a lot of free time, we were watching different films, and also war movies, but we couldn\u2019t have imagined anything like this, because this is a maniac type of decision to destroy the whole nation,\u201d he continued, later adding, \u201cWe find people with hands tied behind their back and decapitated, such things, I don\u2019t understand, I don\u2019t comprehend, the kids who were killed and tortured.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies for breaking news, investigative reporting, sports, podcasts, in-depth analysis, books, and entertainment for a reason: because we believe in what we do. We believe in our country, in the value of truth and the freedom to speak it, and in the right to challenge tyranny wherever we see it. Believe the same?\u00a0<a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Become a member now and join our mission<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appeared in a surprise video screened at the Grammy Awards on Sunday night that called for more American support, reminding the stars that his nation\u2019s musicians<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":325,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1417530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1417530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1417530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1417530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1417530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}