Excellent! A New Banksy Appears -- In Liberated Ukraine.

Most here know I am partial to the street artist. Both the works themselves -- and what is clearly the performance art of unveiling, discovering. . . and, in one memorable case. . . destroying them. . . at auction, as the gavel fell.

Here is the latest, from the Beeb -- and a capture at right; derivative image / non-commercial / commentary / fair use claimed.

. . .Banksy posted a picture on Instagram of the artwork, a gymnast doing a handstand amid debris, in Borodyanka.

Murals spotted in and around Ukraine's capital Kyiv had led to speculation the anonymous artist was working in the war-torn country. . . .

The graffiti artist posted three images of the gymnast mural in the wreckage left by Russian shelling, with a caption merely stating "Borodyanka, Ukraine".

Borodyanka was one of the places hardest hit by Russia's bombardment of Ukraine in the immediate aftermath of the 24 February invasion. . . .

After the town was recaptured, the BBC News international editor Jeremy Bowen -- a veteran war correspondent -- said the destruction wrought by the Russian shelling of Borodynaka was the worst he had seen in Ukraine at the time.

Several witnesses said that Russian troops stopped attempts to dig survivors out of wrecked buildings, threatening people who wanted to do so at gunpoint. . . .

The skies in the street mural are. . . the same steel gray we are seeing here in the city of big shoulders, this midday. Smiling just the same. . . be excellent to one another.

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