Waters said that he began to treat the Russian leader with more respect after he began to listen to The Duran podcast, whose hosts comment on world news “from a position of political realism”.

“Perhaps he leads his country for the benefit of all the people of Russia,” RIA Novosti quotes the musician.

Earlier, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev noted that Roger Waters at the UN is tearing down the wall of lies that Western countries have erected.

Roger Waters at a meeting of the UN Security Council expressed the opinion that Russia's special operation in Ukraine was a response to a provocation.