Taras Topolia - Ukrainian Rock Band Antytila Joined the Territorial Defence Forces before the War.

Taras Topolia is singer and frontman of leading Ukrainian rock band Antytila. He is also spokesman of the Youth Council to President Zelensky of Ukraine. In 2018, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the future president of Ukraine, participated in one of their videoclips, LEGO. Antytila has collaborated with U2 and Ed Sheeran as well as other bands and musicians. Shortly before the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the band joined the Territorial Defence Forces, having previously served as volunteers since the annexation of Crimea in 2014. In March 2022, the band made an appeal to perform remotely in the Concert for Ukraine, a benefit concert raising funds for those affected by the invasion, but they were refused a place at the concert due to their association with the military. As a result, Ed Sheeran collaborated with the band on a remix of his song ‘2step’, with profits from streams of the music video being donated to Music Saves UA, a fundraising project created to provide humanitarian aid in Ukraine. ~/~/~/~/~ Antytila (Ukrainian: Антитіла) is a Ukrainian musical group. It includes Taras Topolia (vocals), Serhii Vusyk (keyboard, artistic director), Dmytro Zholud (guitar), and Dmytro Vodovozov (drums), Mykhailo Chyrko (bass). ~/~/~/~/~ https://twitter.com/tarastopolia https://twitter.com/antytila_offic https://twitter.com/ZelenskyyUa https://antytila.com/ ~/~/~/~/~