A Russian band’s frontman denounced the war in Ukraine onstage in Yekaterinburg. His management says the speech was the ‘raving of a drugged man,’ and that he’s now hospitalized.

Meduza reports that Gleb Viktorov, frontman of the Russian rock band Three Days of Rain, delivered anti-war statements at a concert in Yekaterinburg on July twelfth. He criticized the government's refusal to call the conflict in Ukraine a war, saying people he grew up with are being killed there. The band's management now claims Viktorov was given banned substances without his knowledge by unidentified people, and that his statements were unconscious raving while drugged. They say they shut down the concert, sent him to Moscow to his parents, and he's now hospitalized receiving treatment. A message posted to the band's Telegram channel suggested he had left Russia, though the post was later deleted.

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