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Banksy is in Ukraine.
The anonymous graffiti artist is perhaps the only person who can get away with capitalising on art made in a war-ravaged area.
With a post on Instagram on Friday evening, depicting pictures of street artwork on a destroyed building, captioned “Borodyanka, Ukraine”, the renowned British street artist confirmed the work as his, per Sky News.
This particular suburb in Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, has been heavily bombed since Russian President Vladimir Putin launched the full-scale invasion on February 24.
The artist posted about a girl doing a handstand on chunks of broken masonry on the grey wall of a war-damaged house:
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But, per Al Jazeera, there are other Banksy-esque works all over Ukraine, which the artist has not claimed on the ‘Gram yet.
One mural shows a man resembling Putin being defeated by a flip during a judo match by a child, while another depicts a woman as a rhythmic gymnast in a leotard and a neck brace waving a ribbon on a destroyed building.
We are stronger than David
They are weaker than Goliath.
Possibly by Banksy pic.twitter.com/dRGp2kftqy— Defense of Ukraine (@DefenceU) November 12, 2022
Wow. Just look at Banksy’s extraordinary new works in Ukraine. Just stunning 🇺🇦🧵/ pic.twitter.com/fNMGCUK3yq
— Rachel Clarke (@doctor_oxford) November 12, 2022
A fourth work shows two children spray-painted onto a concrete defensive block using a discarded metal tank trap as a seesaw.
More street-art by #Banksy in #Ukraine appears pic.twitter.com/8XOFsvatvN
— Krishnan Guru-Murthy (@krishgm) November 13, 2022
Banksy has been to places of war and conflict in the past, including the occupied West Bank and Gaza.
His works have also sold for millions of pounds, including that painting that self-destructed the moment it was sold at a London auction.
Banksy is doing well to uphold his reputation while hundreds of Ukrainian civilians have been found dead in mass graves across the country.
