Pink Floyd, the English rock band, has raised £500,000 ($600,000) for humanitarian charities aiding those affected by the ongoing war in Ukraine through donations and sales of its benefit single, Hey Hey Rise Up, the music site mwdwm.com reports.

The recording, released in April, is the first single in more than 30 years by the group—known for the anti-war themes in many of their iconic songs—and is a collaboration with the Ukrainian musician Andriy Khlyvnyuk of the rock band Boombox, who was reported to have been wounded by Russian mortar fire in March 2022. According to 98 Rock Baltimore, the recording has earned £450,000 ($540,000) in sales, while band members David Gilmour and Nick Mason have also made contributions totaling £50,000 ($60,000). In 2015, Boombox backed Gilmour’s performance at a London concert benefiting Belarus Free Theatre, a theater troupe banned by the government of Belarus.

Recipients of the funds include Hospitallers Paramedics, a volunteer emergency medical team in Pavlohrad, near the front line of the war in eastern Ukraine; the Kharkiv and Przemyśl Project, a grassroots initiative that helps Ukrainian refugees arriving in Poland; Vostok-SOS, a volunteer group that provides housing for displaced people and logistics for their safe departure from the war zone; Kyiv Volunteer Charity Foundation, which connects children around the world with their peers in Ukraine; and Livyj Bereh (Left Bank), a volunteer group based in Kyiv and named for a Ukrainian region east of the Dnieper River that was invaded in February 2022.

“We, like so many, have been feeling the fury and the frustration of this vile act of an independent, peaceful democratic country being invaded and having its people murdered by one of the world’s major powers,” said Gilmour. “We want to raise funds for humanitarian charities and raise morale.”

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