The group managed to slice off a section of board and plaster bearing the image of a woman in a gas mask and dressing gown holding a fire extinguisher, but they were spotted at the scene and the mural was retrieved.
A group of people tried to steal a Banksy mural from a battle-scarred wall in Ukraine, the governor of the region has said.
They managed to slice off a section of board and plaster bearing the image of a woman in a gas mask and dressing gown holding a fire extinguisher. But they were spotted at the scene in the city of Hostomel, near Kyiv, and the mural was retrieved, Oleksiy Kuleba said in a statement."These images are, after all, symbols of our struggle against the enemy... we'll do everything to preserve these works of street art as a symbol of our victory," he said.
Police shared images of the yellow wall in Hostomel, with had a large patch cut all the way back to the brickwork.
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