Last fall, Banksy traveled to Ukraine and spray-painted a series of murals that offered scathing commentary on the war waged by Vladimir Putin and Russian military forces. Now, to mark the first anniversary of the invasion, a defiant Ukraine has issued an official postage stamp featuring one of Banksy’s murals. It shows a young boy in judo flipping an older man onto his back. Since Putain likes to pretend to be an expert in judo (he does the same with hockey), it’s not hard to get the message. But just for the record, the Ukrainians drive the point home with a little abbreviation at the bottom of the stamp. When translated to the alphabet, it reads “FCK PTN!” And who could disagree.
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