The US secretary of state, Antony Blinken, carried out Neil Younger’s 1989 Rockin’ within the Free World at a bar in Kyiv throughout a go to on Wednesday evening. He was referred to as on stage by the frontman of Ukrainian rock group 19.99, earlier than he performed guitar. Younger’s music was written in 1989 after he was denied a possibility to carry out within the Soviet Union and was launched because the Berlin Wall got here down. The music selection underscored Blinken’s assist for Ukraine as Russia steps up assaults on town of Kharkiv
Earlier than the efficiency, in a message to Ukrainians, Blinken mentioned: ‘A lot of the world is with you. And so they’re preventing, not only for a free Ukraine, however for the free world. And the free world is with you too. So possibly we are able to strive one thing.’ Blinken is understood for combining ‘music with diplomacy‘, and launched an initiative in 2021 by way of the state division to understand that aim
