Rod Stewart was booed for supporting Ukraine at a concert in the city of Leipzig

British singing star Rod Stewart During his recital in the German city of Leipzig (east) on Friday night, when at one point during the concert he was criticised for showed his support for UkraineA country that has been the victim of Russian aggression since February 2022, the German press reported this Sunday.

The weekly ‘Der Spiegel’ echoed the situation by publishing information in which it showed the testimony of a concert attendee who posted on social networks a statement about the incident. With a large image of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on the screen, a section of the public began to scold the British star.

According to the video, at the facilities hosting the concert, only a few applauses were heard, with the sound being more boos and whistles of disapproval.

Bernhard Spring, music critic for the newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, titled his history of the shows Stewart performed as follows: “With his ‘nonsense Putin’, Rod Stewart is not welcome in Leipzig”.

According to this historian, the 77-year-old British artist gathered around 12,000 people in that East German city. A portion of those present is what the German press showed this Sunday, does not share the support for Ukraine that Stewart has expressed on a number of occasions, was included during his concerts.

Leipzig is one of the larger cities in the eastern German state of Saxony, where the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the new left-wing Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance (BSW) party are particularly strong.

Both parties share their opposition to the policy of Western support for Kiev in the face of the war of aggression, with which Moscow has subjected Zelenskyy’s country for just over two years.