Russia Attacks Ukraine World news. Patron, born , was awarded with home and foreign awards for his work in locating and defusing unexploded ordnance left behind by Russian troops. A mural on an apartment building wall depicts Ukrainian volunteer soldier Maksym Yalovtsov, 32, in Kyiv, Ukraine. Yalovtsov, call-sign Regbist rugby player , a wrestling coach and Dynamo Kyiv ultras, was killed in a battle with the Russian troops in The painting depicts volunteer Oleksiy Movchan, a year-old who was killed by Russian shelling in May in the eastern Donetsk region shortly after he and three of his fellow soldiers rescued 11 civilians and the cat.
In one mural, a fighter pilot making a thumbs-up sign fills a wall in a Kyiv neighborhood. The phenomenon of vivid street paintings brightening the drab grey walls of apartment buildings is not new in Ukraine.
Before the war, those images depicted fairy tales, outstanding musicians and national figures. Now they honor volunteer soldiers and others who have become well-known symbols of heroism and resistance over the past two years. Saint Javelin, an image depicting a religious-icon figure cradling a U.
Javelin anti-tank weapon, was a meme developed by Ukrainian-Canadian former journalist Christian Borys to raise money for the war effort.
The image soon went viral appearing on anything from T-shirts to tote bags, flags to socks. Stay in touch with breaking news, as it happens, conveniently in your email inbox.
