A selection of cartoons published The Economist since the invasion began
In this strip, published a week before the invasion, Ben Jennings reminds readers of the bromance between Donald Trump and Vladmir Putin.Surreal scenes at the Winter Olympics in Beijing as Vladimir Putin’s troops surrounded Ukraine, days before the invasion. By Kal, The Economist’s resident cartoonist.after the invasion showed Mr Putin with war in his sights and on his brain.
”During a lull in the shelling of Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital, Sergiy Maidukov, an artist based in the city, came across an impromptu concert in Maidan square. “The orchestra played the best music in the world—the anthem of Ukraine,” he said. Mr Maidukov shared his sketch of the scene with us.A pastiche of David Low’s “All behind you Winston” . Ben Jennings’s retelling features Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, in place of Winston Churchill.