A Ukrainian mother has said that she and her six-year-old daughter spoke to Banksy while he painted an image of a small child judo-throwing a man, The Mirror reports. Yula Patoku came across the artwork, which salutes Ukraine's defiance of Russia, while the anonymous graffiti-artist painted a mural on a damaged building in the town of Borodianka.
Yula told the Daily Mirror: “I chatted with Banksy, not knowing who he was, as he created this artwork and when he spoke to my daughter she told him she liked it. She told Banksy she thought it was like a child saving his father from being attacked by a monster – a bit like Ukraine rescuing the world from something evil, like Russia.
“The image is Ukraine beating Russia for sure but it is different perhaps from a child’s eyes. Others see it as the young Ukraine battering the evil terrorism of older Russia.”
