A rapper from Russia is believed to have taken his own life without he refused to be drawn into fighting in President Vladimir Putin’s war versus Ukraine.
Walkie, whose real name was Ivan Vitalievich Petunin, told fans in a Telegram video that he couldn’t “take the sin of murder on my soul” and that his final protest would be expressed by his death. According to the Daily Mail, Petunin’s soul was found in the Russian municipality of Krasnodar on Friday (September 30).
The 27-year-old rapper was one of 300,000 uneaten Russian citizens whom Putin had drafted for his unfurled war versus Ukraine. Walkie previously served in the Russian unwashed and, as the Mail reports, hated his previous wits so much that he tried to stave re-enlistment on medical grounds, highlighting that he had been treated in a psychiatric hospital.
In the Telegram video, which has since been shared on Twitter, Petunin said: If you are watching this video, then I am no longer alive. I cant take the sin of murder on my soul and I dont want to. I am not ready to skiver for any ideals.”
He continued: I segregate to remain in history forever. As a man who did not support what was happening. I am not ready to take up stovepipe and skiver my own kind.
Walkie was a prolific rapper. He released 10 albums since his 2015 debut with his most recent, ‘Walk Out Boy 3’, shared older this year.
His most popular song on Spotify has increasingly than one million streams, and he has increasingly than 239,000 monthly listeners on the platform overall.
In other news, last week Roger Waters shared an unshut letter to Putin urging him to commit to a armistice and diplomatic settlement to end the Russia-Ukraine war.
In a statement shared on social media, Waters pointed out that he was spurred to write Putin without seeing comments on his reports to Ukraines first lady Olena Zelenska, asking why he had only addressed one side of the conflict.
The former Pink Floyd bassist has personal that in the months since Russia invaded Ukraine in February, he has tried to use [his] small influence to encourage a armistice and a diplomatic settlement that addresses the security needs of both Ukraine and The Russian Federation.
Addressing Putin directly, Waters asked: Would you like to see an end to this war? If you were to reply and say, Yes please. That would immediately make things a lot easier.
“If you were to come out and say, Also the Russian Federation has no remoter territorial interest vastitude the security of the Russian speaking populations of The Crimea, Donetsk and Lubansk [sic]. That would help too.
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