A Russian band’s frontman denounced the war in Ukraine onstage in Yekaterinburg. His management says the speech was the ‘raving of a drugged man,’ and that he’s now hospitalized.

Source: Tri Dnya Dozhdya

Gleb Viktorov, the frontman of the rock band Tri Dnya Dozhdya (“Three Days of Rain”), has been hospitalized and is receiving treatment after delivering a political speech at a concert in Yekaterinburg, the band’s management said in a statement.

“There is no excuse for what happened in Yekaterinburg! We apologize to everyone in the audience for the artist appearing on stage in that state. Unfortunately, it was the result of negligence by the security detail assigned to the artist, who let strangers into his dressing room!” the band’s representatives said.

The managers say the strangers, who were not identified, “took advantage of the artist’s past addiction and either slipped him or handed him banned substances.” The band said it turned the information over to police.

Everything he did and said onstage was unconscious raving! We shut down the concert; he was sent straight to Moscow, to his parents, and from there for treatment!

Warning: the text below contains profanity.

At the July 12 concert in Yekaterinburg, Viktorov made several political and anti-war statements. Among them, he said that “the guys he grew up with are being killed.”

They won’t even fucking say the word. They don’t call it a war, they call it the ”special military operation.” And it fucking kills me! I grew up with these guys, man! My sound guy is cutting my mic, for fuck’s sake! Why am I so pissed off? You wouldn’t think there was a reason, right? What the fuck, what the fuck happened? The most fucked-up thing that can happen to a Russian happened. You know what that is? A Russian selling out a Russian. Go vote — vote Communist. If it’s not you, it’s nobody.

The band’s Telegram channel later carried a message in which Viktorov said he had left Russia. The post was deleted soon afterward.

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