Published 08:01 IST, August 14th 2022

Pink Floyd's Roger Waters who called Biden 'war criminal' asks West to end war in Ukraine

“The minute he [Joe Biden] was elected, someone put a gun to his head, I assume, and he changed his mind and didn’t do any of that,” Waters noted. 

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World popular British rock band Pink Floyd's frontman Roger Waters, who h brazenly called US President Joe Biden 'a war criminal', on Saturday, reiterated that Ukrainians can "stop dying tomorrow if US sat down with Russia and me peace." In an interview with RT, Waters questioned US' rampant arms supply to Kyiv inste of brokering negotiations. "West seems determined to fight to last Ukrainian because re are fortunes to be me from weapons sales, while American elites wish to rule world," he said. 

“It can be stopped, in my view, tomorrow,” Waters told RT’s Eunan O’Neill. “All it takes is for Americans to come to table and say ‘OK, let’s go with Minsk agreements’. And n it would be over.”

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Pink Floyd's frontman h blamed Biden for encouraging Ukraine's President Vlimir Zelenskyy of pulling out of  Minsk agreements that, according to Waters, would have fairly ended hostilities. Waters reminded civil war started after illegal 2014 coup in Kyiv h witnessed a ceasefire and that 73% of Ukrainians voted for Zelenskyy based on that. “So y didn’t have to have a war," he asserted. 

“ minute he was elected, someone put a gun to his he, I assume, and he changed his mind and didn’t do any of that,” Waters noted. 

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US has 'no interest in ending war:' Pink Floyd's Waters

When asked wher US intends to end  war, Waters responded saying, “No, of course not.” “No, y have no interest in ending it. y will fight to last Ukrainian. Or if y do want it to end, why don’t y end it? Because it’s in ir hands, always has been. It’s in NATO’s hands, it’s in Joe Biden’s hands – except it’s not, it’s his … whoever pulls his strings’ hands. And y don’t want it to end. re are huge fortunes to be me,” he said. rock legend slammed  billions of dollars worth of weapons that  US and NATO countries were sent to Ukraine, inste of bringing leers on both sides to negotiation table. 

A montage of “war criminals” that was featured at Pink Floyd's concert tour emblazoned with ‘This Is Not A Drill’ h an image of Joe Biden on it. previous week, Waters was criticised for what he revealed was a "heavily edited” interview that removed his views on Ukraine and “make me look like an idiot.” While Pink Floyd's guitarist condemned Russian operation in Ukraine as “a criminal mistake,” American brocasters ran helines "Waters back Russia." Whereas singer said that invasion of Ukraine was a huge mistake for Americans who tried to push NATO "right up to Russian border.” He labelled such aggressive moves as unfair, reminding that majority of Ukrainians voted for peace when Minsk agreement was signed "but got war inste."

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08:01 IST, August 14th 2022