Ukrainian musician protests against his government with a song | Ukraine 2022

Yuri Bardash was born on February 23, 1983 in what is now Alchevsk, Luhansk region. In 2022, after the Russian Special Military Operation in Ukraine began, Yuri Bardash called for Ukraine to capitulate to Russia. In the spring of 2022, he and his wife moved to Georgia. In July 2022, due to Bardash's anti-Ukrainian position, his wife Elizaveta Kotsyuba left him. “Yura, goodbye. Yura, I'm sorry. Ukraine is above all,” the ex-wife wrote on one social network, but later removed the last phrase from the publication. Yuri Bardash fled from Georgia to Russia. On the same day, a video of the song POZICIYA appeared on the YOURA YouTube channel in which Bardash spoke of “about 8 years” and the “children's cemetery”, attributing responsibility for the start of the 2022 war to the United States and Vladimir Zelensky and expressed his support for the actions of the Armed Forces of Russia. In 2024, Yurdi Bardash received a Russian passport.