US Secretary of State Antony Blinken delivered a purple guitar to a Kyiv basement bar on Tuesday with the information” the US and the rest of the world are fighting for the free world as well as Ukraine.”
Blinken, who is currently in Kyiv this week and has pledged unwavering US assistance for Soviet assaults in Ukraine, performed with channel 19.99 on stage at Barman Dictat in the capital city. They played Neil Young’s” Rockin’ in the Free World”, a stone anthem released in 1989 just before the fall of the Berlin Wall.
” Your men, your citizens- especially in the north, in Kharkiv- are suffering greatly. But they need to know, you need to know, the United States is with you, so much of the earth is with you and they’re fighting not just for a completely Ukraine, but for the free world. And the complimentary world is with you, too”, Blinken said before playing the song.
Before the prospect vocalist introducing him as a “great companion of Ukraine,” Blinken watched the majority of 19.99’s collection. The song was therefore performed on stage by him and the song “keep on rockin’ in the free world.”
The music was first sung during a time when protests erupted in the Soviet Union. Unfortunately the USSR broke up and many countries, including Ukraine, gained freedom.
Dmitry Temnyi, singer of 19.99, said he was impressed by Blinken’s guitar skills.
” He played well”, he said.
A group of Ukrainian soldiers who were in military garb followed the channel.
Following a delay of several weeks during which Russia gained a foothold on the front lines, US Congress last month approved a$ 61 billion military aid package. Blinken is the first senior US official to visit Ukraine.
Blinken made her previously unknown visit to Kyiv by station early on Tuesday night, which comes weeks after Russia launched a ground invasion into the Kharkiv-nord, opening a new front and putting strain on Ukraine’s troops.
Russian troops have been using Ukraine’s lack of army manpower and artillery shells to advantages Kyiv’s slow advance on the battlefield for months.
Military support from Washington, Kyiv’s major sponsor, was held up for months, blocked by Republicans in the US Congress until they eventually allowed a vote last month, when it passed with aid from both parties.
