In a charity concert, some of the world’s top pop stars came together to raise money for Ukrainian refugees.
Pop superstars such as Ed Sheeran, Camila Cabello and Emeli Sande and Snow Patrol were among the artists at the Concert For Ukraine held in Birmingham on Tuesday.
While Sheeran and Cabello performed hit songs, including ‘Bam Bam’ that was performed live for the first time, Cabello presented the audience with a soulful cover of Coldplay’s ‘Fix You’.
The breathtaking performance began with Illia Bondarenko, who played his instruments while hiding in a bomb shelter in Kyiv.
As the Scottish virtuoso played, the two actors delivered harrowing accounts of Ukrainians whose life was in a topsy-turvy owing to the Russian invasion.
The event also saw Ukrainian singer and winner of the 2016 Eurovision competition, Jamala, performing for her homeland as she sang her Eurovision-winning track 1944.
The concert was personal for her as well, as she herself had to run away with her children at the start of the war.
Despite their struggles, people have turned to music amid the crisis, where musicians have taken social media by storm using their art as an act of defiance.