Antony Blinken Rocks Out During Surprise Performance at Kyiv Basement Bar

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken had a message for the audience Tuesday as he joined a local band in a Kyiv bar during his surprise trip to the Ukrainian capital.

“Your soldiers, your citizens–particularly in the northeast, in Kharkiv–are suffering tremendously. But they need to know, you need to know, the United States is with you, so much of the world is with you and they’re fighting not just for a free Ukraine, but for the free world. And the free world is with you, too,” Blinken said, according to Reuters, before he grabbed a red guitar and performed a rendition of Neil Young’s “Rockin’ in the Free World” at the local basement bar, called Barman Diktat.

Blinken played the guitar and sang the chorus of the song alongside a band called 19.99, whose frontman Dmitry Temnyi told Reuters that he “played well.” The 62-year-old reportedly had watched the band’s set before he was introduced on stage as a “great friend of Ukraine.”

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