During the talks between the Ukrainian and American delegations in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha presented an icon of the Virgin Mary to the head of the U.S. Secretary of State, Marco Rubio.
This was reported by Glavkom with reference to Sybiha's social media.
The peculiarity of this icon is that it is painted on an ammunition crate.
Icons on ammo crates is an art project by Kyiv artists Sofiia Atlantova and Oleksandr Klymenko. Its main idea is to transform death, symbolized by a crate, into life, symbolized by an icon.
The project was presented in 2015 on the territory of St. Sophia of Kyiv. Since then, the icons painted on ammo crates from the war zone have been exhibited in 40 cities around the world at more than 60 locations, including Washington, Berlin, Warsaw, Vienna, and Sicily.
Yesterday, March 11, Ukrainian and American delegations began a meeting in Saudi Arabia. The key topic was the war in Ukraine.