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After 28 years of hiatus, the British group Pink Floyd gets back together to publish this Friday a song in support of the Ukrainian people entitled

(

).

This is the first song recorded by the band since the album

(1994) and

from the rock group Boombox, who is accompanied by two Pink Floyd legends

and

.

All profits generated by

will go to the Ukrainian Humanitarian Relief NGO, the legendary London band reported Thursday on its Twitter account.

"We, like so many others, have felt

of an independent, peaceful and democratic country, and the murder of its people by one of the world's greatest superpowers," he wrote in the tweet.

.

The Pink Floyd guitarist and vocalist is accompanied on this recording, in addition to Mason, a founding member of the group in 1965, by other regular collaborators such as

.

The song, completed in the studios last week, took parts of Khlyvnyuk's voice from a clip posted by the Ukrainian artist on the Instagram social network, at a performance in kyiv's Sofiyskaya square.

From that symbolic place,

, whose last phrase gives the title to the new Pink Floyd song.

The video for

is the work of director and screenwriter Mat Whitecross, while the single's cover, designed by Cuban artist Yosan León, bears a drawing of a sunflower, the national flower of Ukraine.

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