{"id":1417678,"date":"2022-04-04T09:00:19","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T13:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1417678"},"modified":"2022-04-04T09:00:22","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T13:00:22","slug":"president-zelensky-asks-for-support-in-surprise-grammys-speech-tell-the-truth-about-this-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/president-zelensky-asks-for-support-in-surprise-grammys-speech-tell-the-truth-about-this-war\/","title":{"rendered":"President Zelensky Asks for Support in Surprise Grammys Speech: &#039;Tell the Truth About This War&#039;"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fpresident-zelensky-asks-for-support-in-surprise-grammys-speech-tell-the-truth-about-this-war%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=1417678&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><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">LAS VEGAS (AP) \u2014 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appeared in a video message at the Grammy Awards to ask for support in telling the story of Ukraine\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tag\/ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">invasion<\/a> by Russia.<\/p>\n<p>During the pre-recorded message that aired on the show Sunday, he likened the invasion to a deadly silence threatening to extinguish the dreams and lives of the Ukrainian people, including children.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\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,\u201d he said in English. \u201cBut the music will break through anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Watch\u00a0below:\u00a0<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>The Recording Academy, with its partner Global Citizen, prior to the ceremony highlighted a social media campaign called \u201cStand Up For Ukraine\u201d to raise money and support during the humanitarian crisis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFill the silence with your music. Fill it today to tell our story. Tell the truth about the war on your social networks, on TV, support us in any way you can any, but not silence. And then peace will come to all our cities,\u201d Zelensky said.<\/p>\n<p>Following Zelensky\u2019s message, John Legend performed his song \u201cFree\u201d with Ukrainian musicians Siuzanna Iglidan and Mika Newton, and poet Lyuba Yakimchuk, as images from the war were shown on screens behind them.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/johnlegend?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@johnlegend<\/a> and company preached tonight. May God bless and protect the Ukrainian people. Please support those agencies you know and trust in providing relief. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GRAMMYs?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GRAMMYs<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OEeNuTkAHl\">pic.twitter.com\/OEeNuTkAHl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rev. Dr. Chuck Currie (@RevChuckCurrie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RevChuckCurrie\/status\/1510825632610992129?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 4, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The war in Ukraine had taken <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-zelenskyy-kyiv-europe-evacuations-665fd06b92852547d7b27627b99509a6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">a particularly gruesome turn Sunday<\/a> when Ukrainian forces entering the town of Bucha, recently held by Russian soldiers, found bodies of people who had been shot, some after being bound and tortured. Ukrainian authorities accused the Russians of war crimes, and European leaders called for tougher sanctions against Moscow. Russia said the atrocities had been committed by Ukrainians.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAS VEGAS (AP) \u2014 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appeared in a video message at the Grammy Awards to ask for support in telling the story of Ukraine\u2019s invasion by Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"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-1417678","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\/1417678","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\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1417678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1417678\/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=1417678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1417678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1417678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}