Not even the war for music. Odessa, one of the strategic cities of Ukraine and predictably Putin’s imminent target, has starred in a curious and emotional scene in the midst of the war in the country. In front of a large barrage of anti-tank sandbags, a Ukrainian military band made up of several trumpets, a trombone and a horn has intoned Bobby McFerrin’s iconic hit ‘Don’t worry, be happy’ in front of the Opera and Ballet Theater of the city.
Above the sand fortress, a giant banner with the blue and yellow flag reads ‘Odessa-Ukraine’, while the city lies almost deserted. The scene is dominated, in the background, by the theater in the city, one of its two most famous monuments along with the Potemkin Stairs. the video of the concert you can see it almost completely in the main ‘play’ of this news.
odessa so far it has escaped bombingbut its million inhabitants nervously wait for this historic city, considered by Russian nationalism to be the first city of the empire, to be the next to suffer Russian bombing after the advance of troops in other southern cities of the country, such as Kharson or Mariupol, to do so with Ukraine’s outlet to the Black Sea.
The Ministry of Defense has assured that the place where the sandbag barricade has been placed and the concert has been held it is also the site of a similar structure erected during the 1941 Siege of Odessa in the midst of World War II.
Source: Lasexta
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