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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters has canceled concerts planned in Poland amid outrage over his stance on Russia’s war against Ukraine, Polish media reported Saturday.
An official
with the Tauron Arena in Krakow, where Waters was scheduled to perform two
concerts in April, said they would no longer take place.
“Roger
Waters’ manager decided to withdraw ... without giving any reason,” Lukasz
Pytko from Tauron Arena Krakow said Saturday in comments carried by Polish
media outlets.
The website
for Waters’ “This Is Not a Drill” concert tour did not list the Krakow concerts
previously scheduled for April 21-22.
City
councilors in Krakow were expected to vote next week on a proposal to name
Waters as a persona non grata, expressing “indignation” over the musician’s
stance on the war in Ukraine.
Waters wrote
an open letter to Ukrainian first lady Olena Zelenska early this month in which
he blamed “extreme nationalists” in Ukraine for having “set your country on the
path to this disastrous war.” He also criticized the West for supplying Ukraine
with weapons, blaming Washington in particular.
Waters has
also criticized NATO, accusing it of provoking Russia.
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