As Ukraine’s Eurovision act Tvorchi delivered a thumping bass under strobing yellow and blue lights in Liverpool on Saturday night, air raid sirens back in their hometown Ternopil were signaling the latest Russian assault.
Moments after the electronic duo finished performing, they posted on Instagram that Ternopil was under attack.
“Our hometown ... was bombed by Russia while we sang on the Eurovision stage about our steel hearts, indomitability and will,” Tvorchi wrote on Instagram, dedicating their performance to “all cities of Ukraine that are shelled every day.”
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“Europe, unite against evil for the sake of peace,” the wrote.
The duo’s song, Heart of Steel, was inspired by Ukrainian attempts to resist a months-long siege at the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol. At one point during the show, the black sunglass-wearing musicians held up a handwritten sign reading “Ternopil,” while a group around them waved Ukraine’s blue and yellow flags.
Two people were injured in the strike, which sparked fires at warehouses owned by commercial and religious groups, Volodymyr Trush, head of Ternopil’s regional military administration, said early yesterday morning.
“Two civilians were injured. Preliminary, shrapnel wounds and burns. The victims are in hospitals,” Trush wrote on Telegram.
Firefighters were still battling the blaze at the time and “specialists will be at the scene all night,” he said.
Tvorchi — composed of 27-year-old producer Andriy Hutsuliak and 25-year-old vocalist Jimoh Augustus Kehinde — are no stranger to Russian fire.
At the end of last month, hours after a massive shelling, air raid sirens forced them to take shelter in a cellar when they were due to perform in Kyiv’s main rail station. After the alert, the group surprised passengers with an impromptu performance in the entrance hall of the vast Stalin-era station.
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