Ukrainians woke up on Saturday to air raid sirens and reports of missiles being intercepted by shield defences around the country. | Rob Harris
Ukrainians woke up on Saturday to air raid sirens and reports of missiles being intercepted by shield defences around the country.
Other reports said missile defences had been deployed in Kyiv and Zhytomyr in the north, Kharkiv in the east, and Dnipropetrovsk in the centre. A flag with the image of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and the words ‘Dance For Ukraine’ is seen at the Glastonbury Festiva.The Ukrainian president delivered the emotive address via a video message ahead of The Libertines’ stage-opening set on the big screens on Friday describing the event, which began in 1970, as the “greatest concentration of freedom”.
More than 200,000 people are attending this year’s four-day festival, the first since 2019. Among a star-studded line-up is Ukrainian punk-folk quartet Dakha Brakha, who will play on the main Pyramid Stage on Sunday and have vowed to bring an anti-war message with them. Wearing his trademark military uniform, Zelensky told revellers his country wanted to enjoy the summer like them, but could not because “Russia has stolen our peace” and the war must stop before it “ruins people’s lives in other countries of Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America”.
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