Activists paint a giant Ukrainian flag outside the Russian Embassy in London

The road of the Russian Embassy in London was painted with the colors of the Ukrainian flag on Thursday. Marking the eve of the one-year anniversary since Russia’s full-scale war on Ukraine, Led By Donkeys, originally an anti-Brexit art and activist group, poured hundreds of liters of blue and yellow paint on Bayswater Road to remind Russian president Vladimir Putin that Ukraine is “‘an independent state  and a people with every right to self-determination.” Since then, a section of Bayswater Road has been renamed to Kyiv Road.

Feb. 24 marks a year since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which has displaced over 13 million people and caused over 18,000 civilian casualties.