On February 24, 2025, the square Churchill once announced the victory over the Nazi grew crowded to the brim with thousands and thousands of Ukrainians and Britons. People gathered on 3rd anniversary of full-scale invasion to demonstrate the world that Ukrainians are gelled, that peace is impossible at the cost of Ukraine’s defeat, and that the war is going on and Ukraine needs strong support rather than negotiations with the enemy without Ukraine. Of course, they also gathered to pay tribute to the Ukrainian heroes having deceased, support the AFU with donations, and remind the world of Ukrainian prisoners-of-war who are to be brought back home via any possible way.
A massive event ‘Heart-broken but unbroken’ combined performances of British, Canadian, and Ukrainian politicians, leaders of impactful community associations, and allies standing by Ukraine during these three years. The ANTYTILA band played a special hour-long live set. It wasn’t a simple gig, but a loud voice of Ukraine heard all over the world.
During the performance, the band’s frontman Taras Topolia addressed Ukrainians and the world community with a powerful message:
‘There are more than ten thousand of us here today! This square if filled to the brim. The Ukrainians’ objective all over the world is to demonstrate unity and pressure those politicians searching the way to peace at any cost. The motto of today’s demonstration is ‘Nothing about Ukraine without Ukraine’, and it has to be as loud as a bell in each and every European or American cabinet, square, or interview’.
Let us remind that on the first day of full-scale invasion, the musicians of the ANTYTILA band put musical instruments aside and took the guns having joined the Armed Forces of Ukraine as volunteer soldiers and started to discharge their civic and military duties at the frontlines. Today, the band went back to their musical activities and keeps telling the world their own story of resistance and the truth about the war and a heroic feat of Ukrainian people via their creative work, gathering tens of thousands of people and tens of millions of hryvnias for the needs of the Armed Forces of Ukraine at their gigs and doing whatever they can so that the topic of Ukraine kept being up-to-date in the world.
The band had time to share the brightest moments of the event in their social media.
