Sergey Lazarev, who came third in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2016 and 2019, writes that he “cries like a little boy” and that “no one supports the war”. He asks to stop the war. “Stop and sit down at the negotiating table! (…) I want my children to live in peacetime!”
Manizha, last year’s Russian Eurovision entry, says she regrets waking up on Thursday morning. “You don’t know where to go, who to help you. I sit on the corner of the bed and cry. I cry because it’s not my choice. The current aggression is against my will, against the will of my family, I believe it is against the will of our peoples.”
The singer says she also has family and friends in Ukraine. “My daughter-in-law is from Ukraine. My future husband is half Ukrainian. My good friends are Ukrainians. Russia and Ukraine are not just two countries. We are relatives. Any war between us is fratricide.”
The band Little Big sticks to a short statement: “NO WAR”, the group writes. And singer Yulia Samojlova wonders ‘what’s the point of all this’.