Russia Asks Roger Waters To Speak At U.N. Security Council

Russia has apparently requested Roger Waters to talk at a gathering on the UN Security Council on Wednesday, which Moscow has requested is seemingly about arms deliveries to Ukraine. The Pink Floyd co-founder has been overtly anti-Ukrainian, blaming NATO aggression for Russia’s invasion of the neighboring nation. He additionally wrote an open letter to the First Woman of Ukraine, encouraging her husband, President Volodymyr Zelensky, to sue for peace. Equally, in A Rolling stone In an interview a couple of months earlier, Waters stated he was “on a kill list that is supported by the Ukrainian government.”

“Let’s see what he will say. They have a position and you will hear it tomorrow,” Russian UN ambassador Vasily Nebenzia told reutersAdding: “Perhaps he’ll sing for us too.”

“Russian diplomacy was critical. what subsequent? Mr. Bean?” stated an unnamed diplomat on the UN Security Council.

This comes on the heels of author Polly Samson calling Waters “antisemitic to your rotten core” and “a Putin apologist”: “Sadly @rogerwaters you might be antisemitic to your rotten core. Additionally A Putin supporter and a liar, thief, hypocrite, tax evader, lip-synching, anti-woman, sick-to-be-envious, megalomaniac. Sufficient of your bullshit.

Samson is married to Waters’ ex-bandmate David Gilmour, who quote-tweeted Samson: “Every word is obviously true.”