A Ukrainian artist who made headlines with a giant portrait of Russia's Vladimir Putin in bullet shells has now taken aim at her own President Petro Poroshenko -- using wrappers from around 20 kilograms of sweets to craft his image.
Artist Daria Marchenko has created an image of President Poroshenko using sweet wrappers . AFP/Sergei SUPINSKY
“There’s a feeling that they offered us a sweet but they didn’t give it to us,” said artist Daria Marchenko of the unrealised hopes of the revolution, five years on. Despite some reforms, after his first term corruption is still endemic and the ongoing conflict has cost some 13,000 lives.
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