Ukraine 2024 stamps continue their third year of inspiring the world with their resilience. I can’t think of anywhere this is reflected better than in Ukraine’s post office and the people who have worked endlessly to get mail to war-torn areas. This is the 3rd year of exploring Ukraine’s wartime stamps and they have been a lesson in how to use stamps as propaganda. Countries have used postage to help shore up support and home front moral as long as stamps have existed. Artwork, whether on a poster, meme or a stamp is a fast method of conveying a variety of complex ideas quickly. A perfect example of this was the 1971 Liberation of Bangladesh series, issued while the fledging country was still fighting for independence. Quick, unmistakable visuals hitting on themes familiar to its intended audience.
Ukrposhta has mastered the art of mobilising world support via their programs. I think the war issues are among the strongest stamps Ukraine has ever produced and will be looked back on as classics. They have been successful in using worldwide sales to help purchase drones, weapons and bomb sniffing devices as well as keeping the war front and centre in many people’s minds. They have gathered some of the best artists and photographers the country has and created a master class in re-inventing a stodgy, inefficient post office into a vibrant reflection of the unified war effort.
The single best stamp to come out of the war is the now famous. Russian warship, …! Glory to the heroes | Русскій воєнний корабль, іді…! Героям слава by Boris Groch | Борис Грох.
2022 also brought us one of the funniest images to come out of war. Farm tractors hijacking Russian tanks. Good evening, we are from Ukraine! started a new series, that continues to 2024. The videos of tractors towing tanks became one of the symbols of the Ukranian people’s resilience and full out sense of humour. In the early days of the invasion, this image was seared into our memories. I can’t even begin to imagine how Ukrainians must have felt seeing this happen.
Among the above humorous image were reminders of the devastation and the effect on the families left behind.
I’ll be reworking the 2022-year page in the coming weeks. It was a chaotic year keeping up with the issues, especially with the post office knocked offline for so long, so I know I missed a few releases. I’ll likely leave the original up and create a new page.
This year’s Heroic Professions rightfully salutes Ukrposhta itself. In this day of instant communication, it’s easy to forget what a vital link the post office is to so many. Over 500 post offices were damaged or destroyed, and in the first year 15 employees were killed. Among those killed were a man and woman, in postal truck delivering mail. A Russian tank opened fired on the truck, killing both. Despite the dangers, within days of an area being liberated, Ukrposhta is right behind the troops setting up mobile post offices, getting vital government cheques, care packages and letters to families that were cut off. It’s unclear how many worker have been hurt in this war. So yes, well deserved recognition.
On January 24, 2024 Ukrposhta announced the winners of best stamp of 2023. 10 stamps and 8 blocks competed for Best Postage Stamp and Best Postal Block. Eternal Memory to the Defenders of Ukraine by Oleh Shuplyak won Best Stamp. It was issued August 29, 2023. A portion of money raised from this issue went to the families of soldiers killed.
The miniature “Eternal Memory!” is based on the painting “Sorrow” (2016) by Honored Artist of Ukraine Oleh Shupliak. It depicts a Cossack bandura player bowing his head over the graves of his comrades, while cranes fly above him Source: https://censor.net/en/p3469720 (The site asks you to prove you are human and not a bot. Good link, click and go read the article)
Ukrainian Christmas Carols in the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra by Mykolai Kochubei, released December 22, 2023, won Best Postal Block. Ukrposhta Releases the Final Postage Stamps for 2023: ‘Ukrainian Carols at Kyiv Pechersk Lavra’ | The Gaze
I’m still researching some of the artists. It’s not easy finding details at times, as well as dealing with confusion over translated names. Hopefully more is coming soon, especially for Oleksandra Kharuka. I’m verifying the information I have, and don’t want to post erroneous details.
Slava Ukraini! Слава Україні!
January
Coat of Arms of Cities, Villages of Ukraine
Definitives
19 stamps, sheet of 19, FDC, cancel
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This set was originally set for release in early 2022 and was postponed when the war broke out. It is the continuation of the series that ran from 2017-2022.
The following regions are represented:
- Chop, Transcarpathian region
- Marinyn, Rivne region
- Klesiv, Rivne region
- Yenakieve, Donetsk region
- Nizhyn, Chernihiv region
- Shatsk village, Volyn region.
- Parutyne, Mykolaiv region
- Lokachi, Volyn region
- Burshtyn, Ivano-Frankivsk region
- Stariy Merchyk township, Kharkiv region
- Ternopil region
- Fontanka, Odesa region
- Tetiiv, Kyiv region
- Bolgrad, Odesa region
- Koropets town, Ternopil region
- Bakhmut, Donetsk region
- Kremenchuk, Poltava region
- Komarno, Lviv region
- Bogoduhiv, Kharkiv region
Designer: Yuriy Ryabchynskyi
Booklet designer: Oksana Shuklinova
Previous designs include Love Is… (2019) and Traditional Textiles (2019)
Release date: January 22, 2024
February
Heroic Professions Ukrposhta
2 stamps on souvenir sheet, FDC, 2 cancels, postcard.
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- Ukrposhta is always by your side
- The armed forces are winning
- Ukrposhta delivers
This stamp pays tribute to the postal workers of Ukrposhta, who despite a long, vicious war being conducted, continue to deliver vital mail, pensions and packages, even in districts under direct threat of bombings and shootings. In the early stages of the invasion 15 employees were killed, including 2 who were murdered by Russian soldiers who opened fire with their tank on the postal truck they were driving.
Over 500 postal offices were destroyed in the first year alone. Ukrposhta set up mobile postal units that allowed them to re-establish mail delivery as quickly as possible. The post office has also restarted using Ukraine rail to help move mail in and out of the country, something that was phased out over 20 years ago.
Previous stamps in this series: Warriors of Light. Warriors of Good, and Iron People.
Designer: Viktor Grudakov
Grudakov also designed the 2023 set Tribute to Railway Workers.
Release date: February 2, 2024
Day of Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred
#It’s About Freedom
Own Brand
1 stamp on souvenir sheet of 9, FDC, special envelope, cancel
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limited release of 500
Annual commemoration started in 2014, to remember the 100+ people who died during the Euro-Maidan protests.
The protests were more than a demand for closer EU relations; they were a rejection of injustice as a way of life and of the post-Soviet politics of corruption and nepotism. Ukrainians took to the streets to denounce the country’s endemic corruption, from the grand corruption practiced by ex-president Yanukovych and his peers, to everyday corruption and petty unfairness—like the need to bribe a teacher to get better classroom conditions for your children, a doctor to get an appointment, or the traffic police to avoid unlawful fines. Understanding Ukraine’s Euromaidan Protests – Open Society Foundations
You can read more here: Understanding Ukraine’s Euromaidan Protests – Open Society Foundations
Designer/artist: Kostya Lavro
Lavro has illustrated a number of award-winning books as well as about 40 stamps. His first was the 2001 Ukrainian Folk Tales.
Lavro, a Laureate of Ukraine’s Taras Shevchenko National Award, is a widely acclaimed master of contemporary Ukrainian book design. He is considered one of the most striking and colorful graphic artists in the country, practicing a unique, inimitable, and profound national style that combines the influences of the Ukrainian avant-garde of the 1920s and classic Ukrainian folk art.
Kost’ Lavro – “A-BA-BA-GA-LA-MA-GA” Publishers (ababahalamaha.com.ua)
Release date: February 20, 2024
And there will be spring! Award-Winning Photos of the War
4 stamps on souvenir sheet, FDC, 2 cancels, postcard.
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Award winning photos:
- Seizure of the Belbek Airport. Sevastopol, 2014
- Love Can’t Be Stopped! Kharkiv, 2022
- Light Will Win! Azovstal. Mariupol, 2022
- Hands of an Infantryman. Bakhmut, 2023
Designer: Volodymyr Taran
Taran’s first stamp was the Europa (C.E.P.T.) 1997 – Tales and Legends, (with O.G. Haruka). He also designs coins. In 2016, Taran designed and co-created the show In Metal, On Paper: Coins, Banknotes, and Postage Stamps of Independent Ukraine, 1991-2016 for the Ukrainian Museum in New York City.
Teran also designs coins. Search the coin catalogue – Numista
Photographers: Kuba Kaminski/RAR (Kuba Kaminsky), Dmytro Kozatskyi, Serhii Bobok/APR, Maksym Dondyuk
Release date: February 23, 2024
March
Retrospective of Postage Stamps of Modern Ukraine
Own Brand
2 stamps, 2 sheets of 8, FDC, cancel
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600 sets
- 500 years of Ukrainian Cossacks The Cossacks, Ukraine’s Paradigmatic Warriors | Origins (osu.edu)
- 100th anniversary of the first settlement of Ukrainians in Canada Ukrainian Canadian History and Settlement | The Canadian Encyclopedia
- cover: 30 years to the first postage stamps of the modern Ukraine
The two stamps depicted were originally released in 1992 and designed by Oleksandr Ivakhnenko.
Artist on stamps: Oleksandr Ivakhnenko
Ivakhnenko is known for his coin designs. You can see some of them here Search the coin catalogue – Numista
Cover designer: Volodymyr Taran
Release date: March 1, 2024
210th anniversary of the birth of T. Shevchenko – Ukrainian poet and artist
Joint issue with Kyrgyzstan
Own Brand
6 stamps on souvenir sheet
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limited release of 500
The six stamps are reproductions of works by Shevchenko, held by the Taras Shevchenko National Museum in Ukraine. Also used UI generated graphics.
Self portrait painted by Taras Shevchenko, 1840. Oil on canvas.
This release was partially funded by the Taras Shevchenko National Museum in Ukraine. There is a museum also in Toronto Taras Shevchenko Museum | Welcome to the Taras Shevchenko Museum in Toronto.
This stamp was the initiative of the Kyrgyz Republic, with the cooperation of the Ministry of Culture and the Museum.
Designers: Oleksandra and Serhiy Kharuka
Release date: March 9, 2024
150th Anniversary of the Birth of Augustyn Voloshyn
6 stamps on souvenir sheet (limited release of 500), FDC, cancel, special envelope, cancel
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Augustyn Voloshyn 1874-1945 – President of Carpathian Ukraine
Designer: Svyatoslav Romanchak
Romanchak is an artist from Kharkiv, Ukraine.
Release date: March 17, 2024
Hero Cities of Ukraine – Okhtyrka, Sumy region
1 stamp, souvenir sheets of 6, FDC, 2 cancels, postcard
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In the opening days of the war, Russian troops rained cluster bombs down on the citizens of Okhtyrka. Among the places they were dropped was a kindergarten. Residential areas and civilian infrastructure were deliberately targeted.
Sumy’s residents were left, confused and in shock, to defend the city on their own as Russian forces rolled towards them. The Sumy self-defence forces, which formed for the most part on the first day of the invasion, managed to hold the city for almost six weeks, despite being encircled. After 6 April, the Russian forces were pushed out of Sumy region, and most of the self-defence forces members then joined the army where they are now serving. How Sumy’s residents kept Russian forces out of their city | Ukraine | The Guardian
The city was subject to intense and furious bombings, artillery shelling and fighting until March 24, 2022, when the invaders were pushed back. It has been the subject of continued attacks today.
Designer: Volodymyr Taran
Taran has created over 50 stamps to date, starting with the 1997 EUROPA: Legendary Founders of Kyiv set.
Photograph: Okhtyr City Council
Release date: March 27, 2024
April
Hero Cities of Ukraine – Chernihiv Oblast
4 stamps on souvenir sheet, 2 FDCs, 2 cancels, 4 postcards, collector pack
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Up to 50 people a day were died during the 39-day Siege of Chernihiv.
Chernihiv is forty-five miles from the border with Belarus, or, as its mayor, Vladyslav Atroshenko, came to learn in late February, about an hour and a half by tank. On the morning of Russia’s invasion, February 24th, hundreds of them—along with armored personnel carriers and mobile rocket launchers—were streaming across the border. By the next day, the city was surrounded. “Units of the armed forces of the Russian Federation have completed the encirclement of the city of Chernihiv,” Russia’s military spokesperson announced. The siege had begun.
The Siege of Chernihiv, Ukraine | The New Yorker
Designer: AM IDEA
Release date: April 3, 2024
May
Ukrainian Made Weapons of Victory (2024)
4 stamps on souvenir sheet, FDC, 2 cancels, 3 postcards
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I’ve seen a presentation sheet floating around but am not sure if it’s issued by the post office.
- Lyuty Drone
- Eskadron Drone
- Bohdana Self-Propelled Artillery
- Kozak Armored Car
- Shark Drone
- Magura V5 Underwater Drone
Designer: Oleksandra Kharuka
Release date: May 13, 2024
Russian Navy – to the bottom! | русскій воєнний флот – до дна!
Series: Russian warship … !
1 stamp, souvenir sheet, sheetlet of 4 (with each sunken Russian ship listed on left selvedge), FDCs (2 graphic covers + 3 cancels to collect), 3 cancels, 2 postcards
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During the two years of the large-scale war, the Defense and Security Forces of Ukraine sank, damaged and disabled a third of the Russian Black Sea Fleet. Among the biggest losses of the enemy: large landing ships “Saratov” (24.03.2022), “Minsk” (13.09.2023), “Novocherkassk” (26.12.2023), “Caesar Kunikov” (14.02.2024); missile cruiser Moskva (04/13/2022); rescue and tug vessel “Rescuer Vasyl Bekh” (17.06.2022); submarine “Rostov-on-Don” (13.09.2023); patrol corvette “Sergey Kotov” (05.03.2024). Postal set “Russian Navy – to the bottom!” (sheet, envelope, 2 cards, KPI) (ukrposhta.ua)
From Grudakov’s Instagram page:
This famous series of postage stamps, we thank our brave defenders – the Defense and Security Forces of Ukraine, who destroyed, destroy and will destroy the enemy fleet, which means the series can not be considered complete
It all started with a prophetic postage stamp “Russian warship, go … ! ». Boris Groh’s competition work, for which the most votes were given in the popular vote in the first days of the full-scale war, last recorded the enemy cruiser “Moscow”, which two days after the introduction of the stamp was destroyed by the Armed Forces.
This event shookolihnula the philatellistic world and provoked the appearance of the second issue of the series – “Russian warship, … THAT IS ALL! “, because society demanded to give the right to every Ukrainian to purchase a post stamp with a Russian ship!
After this, the defense forces were beaten ” Saratov “, ” Minsk “, ” Novocherkask “, ” Cesar ” Kunikov ” etc., which, like the cruiser ” Moscow “, ukrposhta gave the right to fragmentally appear on the post stamp. Admiralu “makarovu” – avansom 🇺🇦.
On the sketches created by Viktor Grudakov, the legendary borderline is not one anymore, with him all of us who say aloud – “Russian Navy – to the bottom! ».
Artist: Viktor Grudakov Віктор Грудаков
Artists Against War Poster ‘It Is Matter’ Viktor Grudakov, Ukraine
Release date: May 8, 2024
Ukrainian Embroidery is the Code of the Nation | Українська вишивка – код нації
Embroidery from Kharkiv region and the Autonomous Republic of Crimea.
2 stamps, 2 souvenir sheets, 2 FDCs, 4 cancels, 2 postcards, 2 souvenir folders, framed stamps also available
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Issued for World Embroidery Day.
World Embroidery Day takes place on July 30. It was started in Sweden in 2011 and has gradually spread around the world.
Part of a continuing series highlighting the beauty and uniqueness of embroidery from Ukraine that began in 2018. Two types of embroidery is displayed in this outing:
- Shirt (fragment). Kharkiv Oblast – Kharkiv embroidery – 19th century women’s shirt with cockerels – a symbol of the sun, light, awakening of life.
- Crimean Tatar embroidery. Qırımtatar nağışı – 19th century women’s head shawl “marama using the traditional Qasnaq technique (Crimean Tatar “k’asnak”) using metallized (gold) and silk threads on homespun cloth. This stamp was created with the cooperation of the “Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people and the NGO “El Cheber”
Embroidery has appeared on dozens of stamps from around the world.
Designer: Oksana Shuklinova | Оксаною Шукліновою
Postcard photo (Shirt (fragment) Kharkiv Oblast) supplied by National Museum of Decorative Arts of Ukraine
Postcard photo (Crimean Tatar embroidery. Qırımtatar nağışı) supplied by Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people and the NGO “El Cheber”
Release date: May 16, 2024
Azov. 10 years. Free People Choose to Fight | Азов. 10 років. Вільні обирають боротьбу
1 stamp on sheets of 9, FDC, cancel
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Released for the Day of Heroes.
Філбюлетень “Азов. 10 років. Вільні обирають боротьбу” (ukrposhta.ua)
Release date: May 23, 2024
June
Ukraine Forward! Until the 2024 European Championships
1 stamp, booklets of 8, FDC, 2 cancels, maxi card, presentation folder
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Anton Khrupin appeared at a signing session on June 13, 2024, held at the Kyiv Main Post Office (22 Khreshchatyk Street)
Release date: Anton Khrupin | Антон Хрупін
Khrupin also designed Free. Unbreakable. Invincible and Glory to the Armed Forces of Ukraine!
Release date: June 13, 2024
Path to Peace: Peace Summit for Ukraine
1 stamp, sheets of 8 + label, FDC, cancel
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Issued to coincide with the June 15 and 16, 2024 Summit on Peace in Ukraine held in Switzerland.
Designers: Sergey Haruk, Oleksandr Haruk | Сергія Харука, Олександра Харука.
Release date: June 15, 2024
Ukrainian folk Easter Egg – Kherson Region | Українська народна писанка «Херсонська обл.»
1 stamp, FDC, cancel
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Designer: Oksana Shuklinova using egg by Nataliya Kohal from the National Museum of Folk Art of the Hutsul region | Автор концепції випуску «Українська народна писанка» Наталія Андрійченко. Дизайн марки та штемпеля Оксани Шуклінової. Художниця КПД Наталія Кохаль. Писанка із збірки Національного музею народного мистецтва Гуцульщини та
Покуття імені И. Кобринського.
The concept for this long running series was Nataliya Andriichenko
Release date: June 25, 2024
EUROPA 2024: Underwater Flora and Fauna | Поштовий набір «EUROPA. Підводна фауна і флора»
2 stamps, souvenir sheet, 2 FDCs, 2 maxi cards, cancel, graphic envelope
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East Atlantic peacockwrasse (Symphodus tinca) East Atlantic peacock wrasse (Marine Life of the Mediterranean) · iNaturalist
Warty crab or yellow crab (Eriphia verrucosa) – Warty Crab (Marine Life of the Mediterranean) · iNaturalist
Kohal has designed stamps for both Ukraine and Bulgaria. The beautiful art of Ukranian artist Natalia Kohal (Кохаль Наталія) (thisbugslife.com)
LIVE – Kyiv National Art Gallery (knag.museum)
Taxes. Army. Victory «Податки. Армія. Перемога»
Our taxes are our protection
1 stamp, sheets of 3, FDC, maxi card, cancel, souvenir folder
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Oleksandr Nikitiuk appeared at the Kyiv Main Post Office (22 Khreshchatyk Street) for an signing session on June 27, 2024.
Designer: Oleksandr Nikitiuk | Олександр Нікітюк
Release date: June 27, 2024
July
Treasures of Crimea. Return Скарби Криму. Повернення
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In June 2023, Ukraine won a historic victory against Russia in the international legal arena: the Supreme Court of the Netherlands upheld the decision of lower courts to return home 565 artifacts of the exhibition “Crimea: Gold and Secrets of the Black Sea”, which were exhibited at the Allard Pearson Museum in Amsterdam during the occupation of the peninsula. Valuable items found during archaeological research of Crimea during the XIX-XXI centuries contain ancient Greek, Roman, Late Scythian, Sarmatian, Hun and Gothic finds. Ukrposhta and the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy presented postage stamps “Treasures of Crimea. Return
Olympic Team of Ukraine 2024 Олімпійська команда України 2024
9 stamps on souvenir sheet, 10 FDCs, info folder, graphic cover
offset printing, embossing with holographic film
A second post mark will be issued on July 24, 2024.
- judo
- weightlifting
- fencing
- kayaking and canoeing
- tennis
- shooting
A second cancel was released September 11, 2024 representing the medal wins.
Ukraine’s Olympic team won three gold, five silver and four bronze medals, ranking 22nd overall. The sheet of stamps displays each winner.
Gold
- Olga Kharlan Alina Komashchuk Olena Kravatska Yuliya Bakastova Fencing Women’s team sabre 3
- Yaroslava Mahuchikh Athletics Women’s high jump
- Oleksandr Khyzhniak Boxing Men’s middleweight
Silver
- Serhiy Kulish Shooting Men’s 50 m air rifle three positions
- Illia Kovtun Gymnastics Men’s parallel bars
- Parviz Nasibov Wrestling Men’s Greco-Roman 67 kg
- Liudmyla Luzan Anastasiia Rybachok Canoeing Women’s C-2 500 m
- Iryna Koliadenko Wrestling Women’s freestyle 62 kg
Bronze
- Olga Kharlan Fencing Women’s sabre
- Iryna Herashchenko Athletics Women’s high jump
- Mykhaylo Kokhan Athletics Men’s hammer throw
- Zhan Beleniuk Wrestling Men’s Greco-Roman 87 kg
Designers: Serhiy Haruk, Olek Sandra Haruka.
Release date: July 19, 2024
Heroic Professions – Angels of War
2 stamps on sheet with 5 labels, FDC, cancel, 2 maxi cards, presentation folder
Issued for the Day of the Doctor
Charity issue to help fund hospitals in the front-line territories
- Doctors – on the battlefield
- Medics – in the Operating Room
This series began with the 2023 Warriors of Light. Warriors of Good set.
“This series is part of the Heroic Professions series, launched in 2023 and dedicated to brave employees in various fields who work for the Victory of Ukraine. Today, we honor military and civilian medics who, like true guardian angels, save the lives of our defenders on the front lines every day, evacuate the wounded from bloody battlefields, help civilians in the rear, and deliver babies under fire in hospitals across the country. In ambulances and operating rooms in the field, they do their best to save lives. Ukrposhta could not stay away from these heroic deeds, and today, in the series “Heroic Professions”, it issues a stamp dedicated to doctors – military and civilian – “Angels of War”, – said Igor Smelyansky, General Director of Ukrposhta.
Military and civilian medics became the heroes of a new postage stamp from Ukrposhta
Artist: Oleksandr Okhapkin
Release date: July 26, 2024
Hero Cities 2024 – Hostomel, Bucha and Irpin
3 stamps on 3 souvenir sheets of 6
This series was started March 6, 2022 to pay tribute to resilient cities under fire.
Hostomel, in the Kyiv Oblast was the site of one of the first major battles at the outset of the Russian invasion. The Battle of Hostomel took place from February 25 to April 1, 2022. The day before the battle began Russian paratroopers dropped into the airport, seeking to take control of the air before the rest of the troops arrived. Vicious fighting took place over the ensuing weeks, aided by a stiff resistance put up by the civilian population.
On April 1, Russian troops were given the order to withdraw.
Water colour Church of the Intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Gostomel).
Bucha Massacre took place in the first months of the Russian invasion but wasn’t brought to wider attention until April 1, 2022 when Russian forces were pushed back from the city.
Investigations have determined that Russian forces have rounded up Ukrainian civilians for mass executions across occupied territory, marked by a pattern of common killing methods — hands tied, tortured, and shot in the head at close range. The well-documented Bucha massacre may indicate consistent tactics employed by Russian forces across currently inaccessible occupied areas. The number of mass graves in
Russian controlled areas are rapidly expanding, as documented by investigators and satellite imagery, though the full extent of the killing will not be known until access to sites controlled by Russian forces is secure.
Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights – English-Report.pdf (newlinesinstitute.org) p. 23
Putin honoured the soldiers who committed the murders (the 64th Separate Guards Motor Rifle Brigade) with high praise calling them role models. Witnesses reported seeing Russian soldiers going door to door “arresting” people and executing them arbitrarily.
Russian forces went door to door, claiming they were “hunting Nazis,” and rounding up men of military age.97 On one occasion, a crowd was assembled in a square to watch five men kneel with their
heads covered. Following the execution of one of the men with a shot to the back of the head, a commander told the crowd “…this is dirt. We are here to cleanse you from the dirt.” A Hostomel
resident recalled a senior Russian officer telling an eight-year-old girl “we will liberate you from Nazis.” Ibid p. 20
Battle of Irpin was a month long battle for the city, that was part of Russia’s overall plan to encircle the capital of Kyiv and use cities as strongholds to attack the capital. It started February 27, 2022 and continued until March 28, 2022. On March 6, Russian troops captured the city. and hindering civilian evacuations and at times firing on civilians. By the middle of the month, 20,000 Ukrainians were successfully evacuated. When Russian military commanders demanded the Ukrainian military surrender the city, the response was “Irpin can’t be bought, Irpin fights”.
Russian troops patrolled the streets by day, and battles were fought at night. Gradually, the Russians were pushed back and the city was fully liberated. An estimated 30,000 Russian troops were tied up trying to control the city while 3,000 Ukrainians fought them to a standstill and eventually out of Irpin.
Artist: Maksym Kisilov (Hostomel and Bucha)
Artist: Vladyslav Zadvorskyi (Irpin)
Release date: July 29, 2024
August
“Все буде UA! Everything will be Ukraine again”
33rd Ukraine Independence Day anniversary
1 stamp, sheets of 8, FDC, cancel, booklets
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… on the postage stamp, made in yellow and blue colors, you can see spring flowers, which, intertwining, create the phrase “Everything will be”. Artist Nikita Titov, who is the author of the new postal issue, put a lot of meanings and symbolism into the image of the stamp “Everything will be UA!”Here you can easily see how a mother hugs her newborn child, where the mother is a symbol of Ukraine, and the child is the future of our state. «Все буде UA!»: Укрпошта випустить марку до Дня Незалежності (ukrposhta.ua)
Designer: Nikita Titov
Release date: August 24, 2024
A Minute of Silence
1 stamp, FDC, 2 cancels, sheets of 5, presentation folder
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Day of Remembrance for the defenders of Ukraine killed during the invasion and war.
Designer: Serhiy Maidukov Сергій Майдуков
Release date: August 29, 2024
September
Cities of Heroes – Mykolayiv
1 stamp, FDC, cancel, maxi card, presentation folder
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Every hero city is, first of all, people. Those who selflessly defended Mykolaiv and other cities that the enemy sought to capture. People who fought for and defended every meter of Ukrainian land, risking their lives. Mykolaiv has survived thanks to unique people, each of whom has its own heroic story,” said Igor Smelyansky, Director General of Ukrposhta.
“Stamps became an important part of Ukrainian culture during the war,” said Mykolaiv Mayor Oleksandr Sienkevych. – It is impossible to underestimate the role of Mykolaiv residents in the defense of the city, who gathered, dug trenches, made Molotov cocktails and fed the military. Mykolaiv suffered greatly at the hands of the Russians, but, despite this, it continues to live. And, although Mykolaiv is called the “Hero City”, Mykolaiv is a city of heroes.”
Ukrposhta honors the heroic Mykolaiv with a new postage stamp
Designer: Volodymyr Taran using photos by Olena Naraivska / NikVesti, Dmytro Skorokhodov, Yevhenii Zahorodniy
Release date: September 9, 2024
United for Justice
7th issue in this series
1 stamp on sheets of 8, FDC, cancel
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On September 11, 2024, the United for Justice international high-level conference dedicated to the issue of holding Russia accountable for systemic attacks on the civilian infrastructure of Ukraine.…The first conference “United for Justice. Building the web of accountability for international crimes”, which took place in Lviv in March 2023, became an international platform that brings together leaders in the field of international law, officials and experts from around the world to find the most effective solutions that would allow Russia to be brought to responsibility for international crimes.
Ukraine Post PHILATELIC BULLETIN September 9, 2024
Designer: Ukraine post with the Office of the Prosecutor General
Release date: September 11, 2024
United for Justice
1 stamp on sheet of 5, FDC, cancel
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“…dedicated to Ukraine’s cooperation with international partners to ensure Russia’s responsibility for crimes committed against Ukraine and Ukrainians”.
Designer: Ukrpohsta staff
Release date: September 11, 2024
The Fluffy Battalion
2 stamps, 2 sheets of 6, 2 maxi cards, 2 graphic cards, information folder
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War is a real hell, where there is still room for mercy, kindness and love. Tired and exhausted soldiers, returning from combat missions, are warmed by the love given to them by rescued and sheltered animals.The postal issue “Battalion “Fluffy”” is charitable. The proceeds will be directed by Ukrposhta to help animal shelters.
From UKR PHILATELIST BULLETIN
Battalion “Fluffy”
Designer: Natalia Kohal
Release date: September 26, 2024
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