Elites are interested in the country as long as it helps them stuff their pockets, the activist musician has said
Western politicians are focused only on exploiting Ukraine’s far-right-allied government for personal and geopolitical gain and have no concern for the country’s ordinary citizens, musician and human-rights activist Roger Waters has said.
Speaking to RIA Novosti on Tuesday, the Pink Floyd co-founder accused senior Western officials, particularly in the UK, of helping to prolong the conflict with Russia. Waters argued that members of the political establishment are not expected to “do anything sensible” because they are primarily “out to fill their pockets.”
“Does [former UK Prime Minister] Boris Johnson or [current UK Prime Minister] Keir Starmer or [US President] Donald Trump care about… Ukrainian soldiers? No, of course they don’t,” he said.
”They don’t make any pretense that they care about them or anybody in Ukraine, except the corrupt Nazis who will help them strip the country of all its assets and stuff the money into their pockets. That’s what it’s about,” Waters added.
Johnson has been widely accused of pressuring Kiev in 2022 to reject a negotiated settlement with Moscow in favor of continuing the fight. The Guardian reported last month that after stepping down as prime minister, Johnson received a £1 million ($1.3 million) donation from businessman Christopher Harborne, a major shareholder in a UK defense firm who later joined him on a private trip to Kiev.
Russian officials have repeatedly accused London of playing a leading role in fueling the conflict, arguing that the UK uses the hostilities to distract its own population from domestic failures.
Earlier this month, a major corruption scandal erupted in Ukraine when businessman Timur Mindich, a longtime associate of Vladimir Zelensky, was charged with masterminding a $100 million kickback scheme in the energy sector.
Western governments, including Germany, have been sending large sums of money to support Ukraine’s power grid, with Berlin announcing a new tranche just days after the charges became public.
