Dmitry Monatik was abroad during the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine.

As MONATIK told in the Slava + program, on February 24 he was with his wife Irina and two young sons in Barcelona. The family was supposed to return to Ukraine on February 26:.

" We were on vacation, we worked very fruitfully, on February 26 we had to return, because we had a presentation with Roksolana (singer - approx.. ed). Irisha woke me up at 5 am and said: " There are sirens in Kyiv, Kharkov is being bombed" You break like a mirror inside and become empty. You do not believe in what is happening,"

At the end of February, the premiere of the song by Monatik and Roksolana was to take place. He admitted that he had an insane desire to return to Ukraine, he tried to contact someone about serving in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. According to Dmitry, he was torn to pieces and he had long discussions with his wife more than once: " I must go" And she said that there were children nearby and \? In the end, Monatic is not ashamed to admit that he is a complete zero in military affairs.. When he got through on the phone about serving in the Armed Forces of Ukraine, he was dissuaded:.

“I called, asked, they told me: “Yes, Dima, you were still missing here with your military experience”. I'm just a zero in military affairs. I'm not afraid to say it. I imagine that I would be confused, at least. I would go and ask how to reload the machine. And in general, I can’t imagine how I kill someone,” Dmitry honestly admitted..

He also commented on what he would do with his Russian-language hits. Does he plan to translate them?.

" Wasting time on the past… I don’t think it’s worth it,” says Monatic.

In addition, the performer shared whether his house near Kyiv survived and admitted that the guys from the Armed Forces of Ukraine even lived there for a certain time:.

" While intact.

There was a moment when our APU guys spent the night there. Somewhere in the third week of the war, Irisha's dad opened to them. There was a comfortable position for them. Everything is very beautifully clean left behind by our guys. There were neighbors, they came in, they said, there were fragments of rockets in the yard lying around, but that's all for now,"

Monatic also shared that he is in Berlin, where he gives charity concerts in support of Ukraine. After this tour, the artist wants to go to Ukraine.