Ukraine's Banksy stamps feature art of Putin in judo match

Ukraine has issued postage stamps featuring a mural by renowned UK graffiti creator Banksy to people the archetypal day of Russia's full-scale invasion.

The mural depicts a antheral resembling Russian President Vladimir Putin being flipped during a judo lucifer with a young boy.

The archetypal creation is connected a location that was devastated by Russian shelling successful the municipality of Borodyanka, adjacent the superior Kyiv.

A operation with an abbreviated expletive addressing the Russian person has been added to the bottommost near country of the stamps.

Mr Putin is simply a judo achromatic loop and an admirer of the martial art.

Many Ukrainians spot Banksy's mural arsenic a metaphor of Ukraine's fierce absorption to the Russian invasion, which began connected 24 February 2022.

Queues were reported successful Kyiv connected Friday arsenic residents rushed to bargain the caller stamps from the main station office, Golovpostamt.

"It's a precise chill motion for the satellite to recognize Ukraine, that we stay successful the spotlight," Maxime, 26, told the AFP quality agency.

She added that she was delighted to spot a "first stamp from 1 of Banksy's works".

Banksy has produced creation works connected buildings successful respective Ukrainian towns that person been among the worst-hit during the ongoing war.

Russia denies sidesplitting civilians, and - without offering immoderate grounds - says Ukraine staged the scenes.