well, the band kalush showed its principled position by refusing to perform at a festival in montenegro called seed dance. montenegro is also quite a pro-russian country - this is because line api has a russian dj named nina kravitz who e- it's not just that there is some russian woman who has not yet condemned russia's war against ukraine, by the way, earlier because of this and the position of a dj who was not allowed to other festivals, for example, in the dormant german uaz and in the american in detroit, this decision was made by the organizers after certain discussions and discussions, and this dj refused and the contract was terminated by the recording studio, which is called clone records, all because , again, of the position she has on instagram, well, she wrote something like measure of measure so i am against war but well but more but well but i won't say who attacked whom and in general i'm out of politics well, that's why kalush said that we can't participate in the same festival and with such an artist that's why we refuse well, for example, such a position was in a simila

time with a woman has come the hero - this is exactly what they kill with a bright forever rooster kalush this on the knees did not become heroes , do not take the station by your words, do not be afraid, let us not fall down in this battle, it is too early to heaven, look for the door to heaven, hold on to weapons and free ideas, and so that i will read again that when the hero with hearts hides a bright curtain, what is on the knees, has become your hero, glory be to you what are the premieres in completely foreign cities and not to stop what the hero is cooking watermelon forever film for heroes the smell of the boat the smell of heights does not stop life time has appeared interesting killing again boys on the knees of the city to your heroes glory to ukraine thank you friends incredible thanks thank you at the end of the official three-leaf clover of today's concert another song that is absolutely dedicated to ukrainian defenders to all strong free people to all er fighters of the armed forces of ukraine to all boys and girls modern heroes whose faces we know and who we are i am sure

songs that have already become military songs, and the winners of the eurovision song contest, the kalushof the stefania orchestra, their song is dedicated to all mothers also in ukrainian, max barskikh, a singer from kherson who mostly sang in russian, did not see the point of describing ukrainian, released the song "it will be spring", which was very much to the liking of ukrainian listeners, and people immediately began to spread videos on social networks of the consequences of the russian occupation, the consequences of the russian war of aggression and the most important song the ukrainian accompaniment is a red viburnum in the meadow, the leader of the boomboks band andrii khlyvnyuk recorded such a small piece of it at the beginning of the ukrainian russian war, and already the band pink floyd, who for 30 years almost did not release songs, made such a collaboration with our ukrainian singer, please go to the next stand, on which ukrainian boards are depicted, as exactly because of this kind of struggle, and our ukrainians against the occupiers are presented here as an action. this

street was decorated with sunflowers and blue flowers and the orchestra performed the song stefania kalushf the orchestra explained to the british that the sunflower is one of the national flowers and during the russian-ukrainian war it became with one of the symbols of resistance in a personal video message, berezh johnson separately emphasized that in 1991, ukraine was reborn as an independent state, and not the first time it became independent, and now ukrainians are once again defending the right to determine their future in their own country, according to him, britain provided ukraine with the largest military aid among european countries, including about seven thousand anti-tank missiles, and opening the door for 100,000 ukrainians who had to seek refuge abroad because of the war. i never doubted for a moment that ukraine will win this struggle because no power on earth can overcome the patriotism of 44 million ukrainians no matter how long it takes the united kingdom will stand with ukraine and provide all possible military economic and humanitarian support and johnson today came to

decision not to hold the eurovision song contest in ukraine, as it should be due to the victory of the kalush orchestra and eurovision song contest, it will be in great britain. how do you feel about this or do you think that it is was the right decision is for security reasons to move the speech if eurovision was held in kharkiv or mykolaiv but if we can't hold it there, our country is uh a single whole well, we can't , having cities in which shelling happens every day, at the same time choose some other city to build there there is some kind of illusory safe i don't know the region i think it is impossible i think it will not be unfair here i think we can hold eurovision in ukraine or any other contests when there is no war in ukraine people will live in security and they will understand that they have a future that is somehow adequate, but for now, listen to great britain, our partner, hmm, at the moment, everyone understands this, even with the denim guy, that without him, they are our friends, so i think that great britain will very, very coolly support the ukrainian what kind of partici

and i am now in the city of kalush . if our family has known each other for a long time they left here some help there banal with the translation of housing well, the problem is that i have been living er in a german family for six months now and i am very lucky with them, somehow i quickly found, uh, this is exactly the housing. at the moment, i understand that well, for six months, i need to leave here already and i need to look for well, some kind of housing of my own, and there are problems with that. well, now i'm looking for it, well, it's very a difficult process what were we doing before the great war in ukraine and how difficult was it now find classes in germany. i have already understood that being an eternal student has such a karmic role. kharkiv is a city of students, well, i studied like that, then, uh, i got a master's degree. then i had courses. and i went to work a month before the full-scale invasion. well, then when it all started, of course, what kind of work was our office bombed in the center of kharkiv, and to this day, here i am, being here in germany, a questi

or kalu kaluga hello it would be something like that portuguese you know for sure i'm just on from kalush kaluga i'm so by analogy there from the word kavu well in us from the word victory at the eurovision there everything by the way if anyone has the opportunity to travel by train now to ivano-frankivsk and from ivano-frankivsk you can notice that the conductors in the ivano-frankivsk trains in the ivano-frankivsk direction greet everyone with such beautiful pink panamakas as well as the frontman-kalusha, and in addition, stefania's melody sounds for everyone who leaves or enters the trains on the trains it's quite like that somehow in those dark times of ours, a ray of something so pleasant that reminds us of our already won victory over the eurovision song contest. well, victory in this war is definitely behind us. it is still ahead, but in the meantime, let's remind currently, in the briefing of the us deputy secretary of defense for political affairs, when he said that putin is not giving up on his strategic goal of seizing most of ukraine and including it in the russian empire , an

way there everything else i say sit there i say i will come for you comrades bought this bead in kalushed with hearts and an inscription volunteer loaded it with a humanitarian car and mykhailo left i sat down thinking how to drive the first trip on march 8. kyiv region is occupied, the north, south and east of ukraine are on fire in mariupol, the occupiers are once again disrupting the official evacuation, they are shelling the humanitarian corridor. mud and explosives on the roads, i got stuck in the steering wheel with an emergency car. i drove 15-20 kilometers at the most, and you understand, god, four children . where are you going? i had to go through two dozen checkpoints occupied by the occupiers, risking each one. where are you going? i'm talking to mariupol, you moron. while mykhailo was on the road, his night club turned into a bomb shelter, this basement room, two slabs above us, concrete well, that is, in general, there was a lot of provisions, there was a lot of food, because there was a large warehouse, more and more people started coming there the number of people in our

the eurovision song contest in ukraine after all, as it should have been due to the victory of the kalush and the eurovision song contest will be held in great britain if the eurovision song contest was held in kharkiv or mykolaiv. but if we can't hold it there, our country is uh, a single whole. well, we can't, having cities in which shelling happens every day, at the same time, choose some other city and build some illusory safe region there. i don't know i think that it is impossible. i think that it will not be unfair . i think that we can hold eurovision in ukraine or any other competitions when there is no war in ukraine, people will live in safety and will understand that they have a future of some kind. adequate, but for now, listen to great britain , our partner, hmm, at the moment, everyone understands this, and with the denim guy, so that without him, they are our friends , so i think that great britain will very, very coolly support the ukrainian participant, what he was, and this is also important to ask about your work during the war, you have finished the first part of the

native of angola, a graduate of the university of friendship of peoples named after patrice lumumba kalushd at first, but saw his own clothes with stains, was confused for a while, lost his speech. that is, he forgot that he speaks russian. in the eighties, a researcher of the prosecutor's office of the city of moscow went there with a check, the door was opened by a pleasant and not at all black woman spouse detectives were surprised by soviet standards to marry an african, an act that causes gossip and misunderstanding. olga 2 confirmed in the yard that the fight was indeed announced. i'm going to say it right now. look at this. well, it lives with a black man. neighbor lena, the only true friend, admonished others, shame on you, but this did not help. once kalusha could not go to work, all the clothes that were drying in the yard were covered with some kind of sticky red rubbish that looked like blood. well, of course it was scary. and suddenly this is some kind of name. to something he my only suit will suffer from something. olga took up the task of saving clothes. well, what a shame

i know how much it meant to kalush, and the ukrainian delegation that eurovision would be held at homend to stand in solidarity with the rest of the globe shining a unified light. now, us, the rest of us are just loving facilitators. and there is no doubt in my mind that we will all come together in the spirit of unity that eurovision has always been about to celebrate the wonderful people of ukraine. 183 points. whoever makes it on to the shortlist, the feeling is that while the show can't be in ukraine, it should be for ukraine. david sillitoe, bbc news. ukraine! let's go to glasgow now. daniel rosney is there this morning. tell us what the proposals are. this is the site that _ tell us what the proposals are. try 3 is the site that could be hosting the world's largest live music event next year. this arena, you might rememberfrom the fire saga. lulu is from here and she won. glasgow is 20 with cheering, where the song contest was held. joining me now is susan aitken, leading the city's bid. is glasgow ready for this? glasgow is always ready. for your vision. _ glasgow is always read