BBC Breakfast presenter Dan Walker apologised to viewers after Ukrainian singer Maria Burmaka swore live on the programme as she offered a message of defiance to Russian president Vladimir Putin. The musician has been putting a speaker up to the window of her apartment and singing the Ukrainian national anthem in the heart of Kyiv amid the Russian offensive.
She told the show: “The Ukrainian anthem is very important for all Ukrainians and I’m a musician and I decided to take my amplifier and open the window and sing to the districts. My building is on one of the hills and all districts hear this anthem.”
Burmaka said that from her window she could see Russian forces bombing the Holocaust memorial in the city and she has been taking shelter in the parking garage underneath her building, which she described as “cold and scary”.
