A Russian rock musician who condemned the invasion of Ukraine at a concert on Wednesday and questioned why so many Russians and Ukrainians had died was charged with discrediting the army.
Before a packed stadium in Ufa, Russia, Yuri Shevchuk, the frontman of the band DDT, said that people were dying as a result of “some kind of Napoleonic plans of our latest Caesar, yes?”
“The motherland, my friends, is not,” he said, a part of the president’s body “that you have to lick and kiss all the time.”
“The motherland is a poor grandmother selling potatoes at the train station,” he said, according to a translation by The Associated Press.
