Bono has paid tribute to Alexei Navalny during a recent Las Vegas residency show with U2.The moment took place on Saturday night (February 17), during the band’s show at the Sphere as part of their ongoing residency.
It was just before they launched into a rendition of Crowded House’s ‘Don’t Dream It’s Over’, that Bono paid his respects to the Russian opposition leader, who was imprisoned in a Russian penal colony and suddenly died on Friday (February 16).“Edge and I got to stand with some of the people in Ukraine as they stood in that train station, which was a converted bomb shelter.
We got to stand with some of the people of Ukraine as they waited for the train to arrive with the rest of the free world on it,” he began the speech to the crowd. “They’re still waiting for some of that train to arrive.
America, you’re so generous… but let’s get these people what they need.”“Next week it’ll be two years since Putin invaded and tried to destroy the hard-won freedoms [of the Ukrainian people],” he added. “Next it’ll be Poland, next it’ll be Lithuania, East Germany — who knows where this man will or won’t go.”“To these people, freedom is not just a word in a song.
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