“I proposed to Oleg a year ago. I said: “Oleg, let me take you to us, we have a “Cultural Landing” under the Ministry of Defense. And there are all our performers, artists who supposedly serve in the army, they are military, but also traveling. This is “Boombox”, and “Tank on the Maidan”, and Zhenya Galich. They travel and collect money around the world on tour, but they are military,” said Nedzelsky.
He said that Vinnik liked his proposal.
“I say: “Let me take you, mobilize you, you will become a military man.” He thought so, said: “It will be cool, I’m really ready to put on the uniform and that’s it.” But when I talked with the senior officers, I said: “Listen, maybe we’ll consider it. to attract Oleg here.” He says: “So much negativity has already been poured on him that it is toxic for us. Give anyone, but not Oleg,” Nedzelsky noted.
He admitted that he advised Vinnik to refuse to perform his Russian-language songs.
Context
Participants of the “Cultural Landing” perform on the front lines and in rehabilitation centers in front of Ukrainian defenders. In an interview with the editor-in-chief of the online publication “GORDON” Alesya Batsman, the co-founder of the project, Ukrainian artist Kolya Serga said that everything was created four units, each of which is tied to certain sectors of the front and works directly with those groups of troops that are assigned to this region. According to the artist, each group consists of three to five artists, who give about four concerts every day, six days a week.
Serga emphasized that all participants in the “Cultural Landing” are also on the front line. The artist said that the “Cultural Landing” project provides for accompaniment during hostilities. Besides, The artists of “Cultural Landing” perform in hospitals or rehabilitation centers.
Most of the “Cultural Landing” are Ukrainian military artists.
