'In the past year and a half, Ukrainian people have become better,' singer Oleh Skrypka tells Newsweek.
As Russia's unprovoked war against Ukraine reached the end of its 18th month, Ukrainian musician Oleh Skrypka was aiding his country's fight from half-way around the world.
His band, on the other hand, was not. In order to put on the show in Chicago, along with a prior gig in Madison, Wisconsin, a local group needed to be found, and Russian national Ilya Sokolov, manager of the self-styled"folk punk band" Fugu Dugu, took the opening as an opportunity to do what he could to help Ukraine defend itself from the land of his birth.
"We also did shows for the troops in the Donbas," he added, speaking of the war in eastern Ukraine that began in April 2014 after Russian-controlled forces began seizing government buildings in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. While this group of Russian exiles finds itself in the difficult position of facing boycotts and blacklisting in the West over the actions of a government that they personally oppose, it is notable that virtually all of Ukraine's most popular pre-war entertainers have taken up the cause of their country's defense.
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