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Banksy to be sold for Protesters try to block Roman

children's hospital in Ukraine Abramovich’s yacht from

A rare piece by the Bristol-based (CND) on a wall.
street artist Banksy is to be auc- The organisation campaigns to rid
tioned to raise money for a children's the world of nuclear weapons and docking in Turkey
hospital in Ukraine. other weapons of mass destruction.
An anonymous donor put the 2005 The CND symbol is also widely ON Tuesday March 22 a second
work, CND Soldiers, up for sale last known as an international symbol superyacht belonging to Chelsea
Friday on the website MyArtBroker. of peace. Joey Syer, head of urban Football club owner and sanctioned
Due to a flurry of bids, the auc- and contemporary at MyArtBroker, Russian oligarch Roman Abramov-
tioneers are now only accepting bids said: "We are humbled by the incred- ich has docked in a resort in south-
above £40,000, double the original ible generosity shown in a flurry of western Turkey.
starting price. bids over the weekend, doubling the A day earlier, Abramovich's Ber-
The money raised will be sent to starting bid in hours." muda-flagged luxury yacht My So-
Ohmatdyt Children's Hospital in Ohmatdyt is the largest children's laris arrived in the nearby resort of
Kyiv. The work, which will be sold via hospital in Ukraine and is still pro- Bodrum, triggering a protest by a
silent auction, depicts two soldiers viding lifesaving treatment as the group of Ukrainians who boarded a
painting graffiti of the symbol for the crisis there continues, MyArtBroker small motor boat and tried to pre-
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament said. In a statement on its website,
vent the yacht from docking.
the auction house described the con- NATO-member Turkey has close
tinued functioning of the hospital ties to both Russia and Ukraine. It
as "a matter of national security" for has criticized Moscow's invasion
Ukraine. of Ukraine but has also positioned
As well as continuing to provide itself as a neutral party trying to
medical care for children who were mediate between the two. In doing sea club. Abramovich said the sale net proceeds from the sale will be
already critically ill before the war, so unlike many countries it has not won't "be fast-tracked but will follow donated.
it is also admitting people of all ages applying sanctions on Russia over due process" and that the net pro- It believed that since the start of
injured in the conflict, the auction its invasion. ceeds will go to victims in Ukraine. February some 14,000 Russians
house added. Abramovich has been the UK as Forbes has valued Abramovich's net have fled to Turkey due to the con-
Hospital staff have deployed make- well as the EU and is facing having worth at $12.4 billion while Chelsea flict in Ukraine as the face what they
shift operating rooms and wards in his asset freezes and travel bans was worth an estimated $3.2 billion describe as deteriorating conditions
the basement of each hospital build- over their ties to the Kremlin. in 2021. The 55-year-old, who was in their country, while more than
ing, with patients also having to take At the being of March it was an- once Russia's richest man, said he 49,000 Ukrainians have also arrived
cover underground, it said. nounced that he's selling the Chel- will set up a foundation to which in Turkey.