Pink Floyd founding member Roger Waters has in one Interview with the US edition of ROLLING STONE Russian war crimes in Ukraine dismissed. In return, he accused the interviewer of being taken in by Western propaganda. This is “exactly the flip side of saying Russian propaganda, Russians interfered in our elections, Russians did this and that,” Waters said. “All lies, lies, lies.”
He also dismissed accusations against Russia that he himself was allegedly on a Ukrainian death list. “Don’t forget, I’m on a death list backed by the Ukrainian government. I’m on the damn list and they’ve killed people recently… when they kill you they put ‘liquidated’ on your picture. And I’m one of those damn pictures,” Waters said.
Roger Waters – a public enemy of Ukraine?
In fact, the musician is on a list of alleged enemies of the state of Ukraine by the controversial Ukrainian site Mirotvorets (Peacemakers). However, the entry dates back to 2018 and has nothing to do with his current statements on the Ukraine war. The site was also in the German headlines in 2018 when Ex-Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder was listed there.
In the interview, Waters also accused the media of spreading an image that Russia and China are evil and the West is good. However, he sees it differently. “We’re the baddest by at least a factor of ten. We kill more people. We interfere in the elections of more people. We, the American Empire, do all this shit.”
Waters had repeatedly attracted attention with controversial statements about the Ukraine war. In an open letter to the wife of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, Olena Zelenska, he blamed Zelensky for the conflict. After this letter drew much criticism, he also wrote to Russian President Vladimir Putin, asking him to specifically say that Russia had “no territorial interests other than the security of the Russian-speaking population in Crimea, Donetsk and Lubansk.”