Street art, Laika dedicates new work to Ukrainian and Russian women

On the occasion of International Women’s Day, a new work by street artist Laika has appeared in Rome’s Piazzale Ostiense near the Piramide metro station. The poster, which appeared on the night between March 7 and March 8, is dedicated to Ukrainian and Russian women: it depicts two embracing women crying dressed in the colors of the Ukrainian and Russian flags.

"It is a dramatic March 8. The war that is raging particularly affects women and children, civilian victims are counted in the tens of thousands, after years of conflict that began in 2014 and is experiencing a devastating escalation in these weeks,“ said the artist. ”Ukrainian and Russian women are united by the atrocities they are suffering. Some have lost their homes, some a husband, a child, some their own lives in a war between brotherly peoples who, all of a sudden, find themselves enemies for the economic and political interests of those who govern them.
And then we get the images of peace negotiations in which not a single woman is present. Today I want to celebrate all Russian and Ukrainian women because none of them would have wanted this war."

Street art, Laika dedicates new work to Ukrainian and Russian women

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