Paintings And Propaganda: The Art Motivated By War In Ukraine

A fresh painting photographed on October 18 on a battle-scarred wall in Kupyansk, a town in the northeast of Ukraine recently recaptured by Ukrainian forces. The text reads "We will multiply the love in the world, and for this we will win!"

A pro-Russian mural inside a warehouse in recaptured Kupyansk photographed on October 18.
 

Locals pass a mural depicting the hands of a Ukrainian soldier mending the torn flag of Ukraine in Kyiv in April.

Cars in Moscow in September pass under a mural of Russian soldiers bearing the ‘Z’ symbol used as a pro-war emblem. The image references a famous tsarist-era painting of three Russian knights.
 

French artist Christian Guemy paints next to a metro station that was badly damaged by a Russian strike in Kyiv in April. 

A woman in central Kyiv poses next to a poster depicting the Crimea Bridge ablaze on October 8. 

Ukrainian artist Varvara Lohvyn paints traditional Ukrainian Petrykivka decorations on the anti-tank barriers known as ‘Czech hedgehogs’ in central Kyiv in August.

A mural above a playground in Reutov, near Moscow, depicting an elderly woman with a red flag. The large-scale painting, which was photographed in April, references a notorious incident shortly after the Russian invasion in which a pensioner emerged from her house near Kharkiv holding a flag of the Soviet Union to greet soldiers she assumed were Russian. The men were in fact Ukrainian servicemen.

Painter Viktor Oliynik, 67, paints a cityscape featuring anti-tank barriers on the streets of Odesa, Ukraine, in March.

The entrance to a coffee shop is decorated with posters depicting female Ukrainian warriors in Velyka Kostromka, a village in eastern Ukraine on October 13.

A painter works on a mural linking World War II with the Russian invasion of Ukraine in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian city of Donetsk in May. 

Mural painters complete an image of "Saint Javelin" -- the Virgin Mary cradling an anti-tank missile in Kyiv in May.