8 April 2022: BBC: Pink Floyd reunite for Ukraine protest song
by Mark Savage
Gilmour says the song is a show of “anger at a superpower invading a peaceful nation”...
Work on the song began a couple of weeks ago, when Gilmour was shown Khlyvnyuk’s Instagram feed. The singer had posted footage of himself in in Kyiv’s Sofiyskaya Square, fully armed and ready to fight the Russian invasion...
The song carries special significance for Gilmour, as his daughter-in-law is the Ukrainian-born artist Janina Pedan.
He told the BBC she had inspired the artwork for the single, which contains the national flower of Ukraine, the sunflower.
“My daughter-in-law told us the story of a woman at the beginning of this conflict, giving sunflower seeds to Russian soldiers and that she hoped that sunflowers would sprout where they died.”
Gilmour said he found the “powerlessness of the West” in the face of Russian aggression “infuriating” but said he supported the ongoing sanctions against the country...
Asked how he felt about the UK government’s response to the crisis, he expressed frustration at the bureaucracy facing Ukrainian refugees who want to settle here.
“A lot of Europe is saying ‘welcome’ and our [government] is saying, ‘you need to get onto a computer and fill in forms’.
“My view would be to open the doors and sort of paperwork out later. But government doesn’t seem to be following that way of thinking.”...
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-61037080
27 March 2022: Israel365News: BBC interviews Ukrainian soldier with Nazi symbol on uniform
The British Broadcasting Cooperation (BBC) interviewed a Ukrainian soldier donning an infamous Nazi symbol on his uniform without even mentioning the blatant hate symbol during the piece...
In 2014, it (BBC) reported on the role of neo-Nazis in the Donbas conflict and made a documentary about racism and anti-Semitism in the country...
According to Lower Class Magazine, a leftist German publication, the Azov battalion operates a quasi-underground outfit called the “Misanthropic Division.” They recruit heavily among the ranks of neo-Nazi youth in Germany, France, and Scandinavian countries. Foreign fighters are offered training with heavy weapons such as tanks. One former sniper for the Swedish army, Mikael Skillit, became a neo-Nazi volunteer for Azov.
https://www.israel365news.com/352272/bbc-interviews-ukrainian-soldier-with-nazi-symbol-on-uniform/
Wikipedia: Polly Samson
Samson’s father was Lance Samson, a newspaper editor and diplomatic correspondent for the Morning Star. Her mother was a writer of Chinese descent, Esther Cheo Ying, who wrote a memoir, Black Country to Red China, about her time serving as a Major in Mao Zedong’s Red Army. Samson’s mother’s second husband was the British journalist Alan Winnington. (Wikipedia: Alan Winnington was a British journalist, war correspondent, and Communist activist most famous for his coverage of the Korean War and the Chinese revolution.)...
Samson has written short stories for BBC Radio 4...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polly_Samson