The artist is also accused of using Australian photographer Helen Whittle’s photo of her daughter as a model without permission.
On 11 July 2023, Italian street artist Jorit — real name Ciro Cerullo — announced on his Instagram profile that he had completed a mural on a bombed-out building in Mariupol, the Ukrainian city occupied by the Russian army.
The work portrays a little girl with the colours of the flag of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic in her eyes. Behind her, bombs with the word ‘NATO’ are falling. An anti-fascist symbol with the characteristic black and red flags also appears at the bottom left of the mural.