"Bratya Grim" is a Russian pop-rock band founded by twins Boris and Konstantin Burdaev in 1998 in Samara. Boris Burdaev left the band and performs solo. The current lead vocalist and frontman of the group is Konstantin Burdaev (Kostya Grim).
Listening to this artist's tracks on official streaming platforms, social media, and other services indirectly contributes to financing the war — through taxes paid to the budget of the Russian Federation.
In August 2018, Konstantin Burdaev was entered into the database of the Myrotvorets website for denying Russian aggression and conducting illegal concert tours in the territory of Russian-occupied Crimea.
In July 2020, Konstantin Burdaev was awarded a medal following a mission to Syria, where he gave several performances for Russian military personnel. The artist commented on this event as follows:
I flew there not for awards or honors, but out of conviction. By my convictions, I am an inveterate imperialist, statist, and great-power patriot, so the dilemma of whether to fly or not never even arose.
Bratya Grim's Stance on the War in Ukraine
Following the outbreak of the full-scale invasion, a post appeared on the band's social media featuring a photo of the "Alley of Angels" monument in Donetsk and text supporting the military action:
You still haven't understood anything. This is not a war, guys. This is a special operation for the denazification and demilitarization of a neighboring state with an official! Nazi ideology. Where were you, my dear armchair pacifists, when Nazi volunteer battalions and the Armed Forces of Ukraine ironed the Donbas for 8 whole years with howitzers and MLRS?? Where was your compassion and peacefulness? ... This is not a war, this is the end of a war that lasted 8 years
In August 2022, the band "Bratya Grim" took part in the patriotic festival «Za Rossiyu» in Kaliningrad.
In May 2023, Kostya Grim gave an interview to Zangalis&K, in which he justified the war in Ukraine using typical clichés of Kremlin propaganda:
This all started with the Maidan. Nobody wanted to seize Crimea, everyone on the Donbas was behaving quietly. Ukraine is diverse, this is a civil confrontation. Russia has nothing to do with it at all. Ukraine is a slice of the Ukrainian SSR, which was artificially created by the Bolsheviks back in the day. A huge number of Russian territories were severed, historically Russian lands like Donbas, for instance, where Russian people have always lived. And there were never any Ukrainians there in history, neither Western Ukrainians nor Rusyns. People traveled there from all across the Soviet Union for high wages. And that is Russian territory, completely Russian-speaking across all of Eastern Ukraine. The cities there were built by Russian Tsars — Ekaterinoslav, Yuzovka, Donetsk itself, Kharkiv. Those are all Russian cities. I'll stay silent about the mother of Russian cities, let's not go there. Let's leave Chernihiv alone too, it was also founded by Russian princes.... I believe that Ukrainians and Russians are essentially one people...
Russian-speaking Crimea... Thank God our troops were stationed there. Otherwise «trains of Friendship» would have headed there, everyone remembers full well what that is. Naturally, Crimea would have faced such a mess like Donbas if that hadn't happened. Our troops were simply stationed in Crimea, and that was that
The separatists are the Ukrainians; they broke away from the Soviet Union. They are the original separatists who hijacked our population and started imposing alien imperatives on them in the form of Bandera, Shukhevych, and 'Ukraine above all', all these Nazi chants. The people of Crimea and Donbas did not agree with the people who came to power and immediately introduced anti-Russian laws... They started banning the Russian language, Russian education. They were told under the Minsk agreements: 'Guys, let's do this: fine, we took Crimea. Okay, that's done, forget it. Now let's make things work in Donbas. Just don't introduce those laws there...' They sent troops there. Meaning people started seizing administrative buildings, naturally a coup took place. If you're allowed to seize them — why aren't we allowed to? If it's allowed in Kyiv — why isn't it allowed in Donetsk?
The stance of Konstantin Burdaev and the band "Bratya Grim" regarding the war in Ukraine represents consistent support for Russian policy, justification of annexation, and military aggression. This includes support for the Russian military, concerts in hospitals, participation in patriotic festivals, and regular anti-Ukrainian statements.
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