Thread by @maxseddon

The pro-annexation concert on Red Square is in full swing. Ivan Okhlobystin, the star of the Russian version of Scrubs, is saying that Kharkiv, Odesa, Mykolayiv, and other cities in "Russian Ukraine" are next to be annexed

Fuck me, they're singing the Donbas version of the sea shanty meme song, I kid you not

"We must defend Russian culture from western colonialist hegemony"

*sings ripoff of a TikTok sea shanty meme from two years ago*

There was also a bit earlier where the guy from Russian Scrubs said Russia was fighting a "holy war" and explained why it was the Russian version of jihad but I was too gobsmacked to record that part

ah here it is

It's certainly a vibe

This guy with the white dreads has a song that goes "I'm Russian, my blood is from my father [...] I'm Russian, to spite the whole world"

his name's Shaman but he was also wearing a cross – not very shamanic if you ask me

Nikolai Rastorguev is the oddest guy. All his songs are about the horrors of war but he personally seems to actually love war

Now a poetry reading from a 16-year-old from Luhansk who apparently joined a separatist battalion aged 9

Here's Putin. "It was Russia that created modern Ukraine by gifting it its own territories, along with the population, without asking them what they wanted. When the USSR collapsed it was the same."

(Actually, there was a vote in Ukraine and independence won overwhelmingly)

Jeez, this Backstreet Boys reunion is not what I was expecting