Ukrainian artist Andrii Yermolenko shows one of his posters on his Facebook page during an interview with Reuters in Kiev, Ukraine June 13, 2018. REUTERS/Valentyn Ogirenko
KIEV (Reuters) - Soccer players at the World Cup will not be kicking skulls around the field, but that is what they are doing in posters created by a Ukrainian artist as a protest against the event being held in Russia.
Andrii Yermolenko's black and red artwork and the hashtag BoycottWorldCup2018 have gone viral in Ukraine, whose relations with Moscow collapsed in 2014 over Russia's annexation of Crimea and its support for separatists in eastern Ukraine.
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