All of the murals in the series portray the reality of war and the suffering of the Ukrainian people. One image of a woman in a bathrobe wearing a gas mask was removed from the wall, believed to be in an attempt to sell and profit from Banksy's artwork.[1] Ukrainian media reported that the perpetrator could face up to 12 years in jail for the crime.[2]
In total, Banksy was responsible for seven different artworks in the nation.[3] Among those:
two children using a metal tank trap as a seesaw (Kyiv);
a young boy throwing a man to the floor during a judo match; the man is seen as putin who’s known to have gone in for judo (Borodianka, a rural settlement in Kyiv Oblast);
a gymnast doing a handstand (Borodianka);
a woman in her dressing gown, hair in curlers, wearing a gas mask and holding a fire extinguisher (Hostomel, a rural settlement in Kyiv Oblast);
another gymnast with a ribbon (Irpin, a city in Kyiv Oblast);
an old bearded man taking a bath (Horenka, a village in Kyiv Oblast);
the piece in which the artist used an existing phallic graffiti as a nuclear warhead loaded onto a Russian (marked with Z) armoured military truck (Kyiv).
Children of War and Judo Match were the most notable artworks.