Hyperallergic reported that the artists launched hundreds of paper airplanes at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, calling for a no-fly zone over Ukraine.
Leaflets converted into 350 planes said, "Save the sky over Ukraine. This jet is made of paper… But what if it was made of steel… And carried a bomb over the heads of those you love." A group of artists and activists from Ukraine and other countries created paper planes and launched them from the top of the museum's rotunda.
The museum didn't plan this intervention.
Artists Anton Varga, Bea Fremderman, V Pan, Volk Lika and others are among the organizers of the act. "We want to draw attention to the Russian war in Ukraine," the artists said in a statement. "The military brutality of this war waged by Vladimir Putin is affecting Ukraine, the whole of Europe and, ultimately, every country that is constantly being destroyed by Putin's violence".
One of the participants was artist Betty Roytburd, Oleksandr Roytburd's daughter. According to her, the Guggenheim visitors mostly supported the act. Some of them applauded the activists and took the leaflets home.
Asked whether the no-fly zone over Ukraine could provoke World War III, Betty Roytburd said: "World War III can start if we do nothing to stop Putin. It applies to the entire planet. Russia has seized two nuclear power plants, one of which is the largest in Europe. Failure to provide Ukraine with a no-fly zone tells Putin that he can continue".
The central intelligence department of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine warned of Vladimir Putin's preparation of a terrorism act at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.