The postage stamp features the British street artist’s mural on a bombed out wall in Borodianka
A graffiti image of a child throwing a man on the floor in judo clothing was spotted on a wall amid damaged buildings in Borodyanka. Ukraine has released stamps featuring Banksy artwork that depicts a boy defeating Vladimir Putin at judo, as it marks theThe stamp features artwork the British artist created for a mural on a barely-standing wall in Borodianka, a town north-east of the capital Kyiv, which was bombed at the beginning of the war.
The Russian president Vladimir Putin is known to be a black belt in judo. The caption“FCK PTN” in Cyrillic has been added to bottom left corner the new stamp.Svetlana, a 50-year-old economist, tol Reuters said she wanted a stamp because she “support[s] the Ukrainian armed forces” and “the stamp is printed at a historic moment”.
Maxime, 26, rushed out to buy the first-day issue stamps, said she was happy to to see a “first stamp from one of Banksy’s works”. “It’s a very cool gesture for the world to understand Ukraine, that we remain in the spotlight,” she told Reuters. Banksy has created artworks on buildings and in several sites in Ukrainian towns, particularly those that have been among the worst affected by the war.Following the recapture of the town by the Ukrainian military last spring, Ukrainian officials accused the Russians of committing mass war crimes there
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