Presentation sheet «And
there will be spring!» signed by Volodymyr Taran
Volodymyr Taran – designer.
«And there will
be spring!» - With this postal issue, featuring the best war-time
photos, Ukrposhta honors heroic resistance of the Ukrainian people in the war
against Russian aggressors, which has been going on for 10 year.
The iconic photograph of the war
launched by russia against Ukraine in 2014 with occupation of Crimea belongs to
Kuba Kaminski/PAP. The Polish photographer miraculously managed to hide the
photo of the seizure of the Belbek airport in Sevastopol from the russian
invaders, thanks to which the whole world saw this photo.
A warrior in the light of the
sunrays is a legendary self-portrait taken at Azovstal by its defender with the
call sing “Orest” Dmytro Kozatskyi in May 2022 during the heroic defense of the
“Mariupol fortress”.
At the photo of Serhiy Bobok/AFP,
there is a fragile moment of love: volunteer medics at a wedding photo shoot at
the yard of a house destroyed by russian missiles in Kharkiv, in spring of
2022.
A photo of the hands of the 28th
Brigade infantryman with the call sign “Snizhok” was taken by Maxim Dondyuk a
few hundred meters from the enemy trenches near Bakhmut in Murch 2023.
The photos reproduced on the postage
stamps have won prestigious awards: “Captire of Belbek Airport” won the first
prize in the Grand Press Photo 2014 competition; “Light Will Win!” and “Love
Can’t Be Stopped!” were included in the list of the best photographs of 2022
according to The Guardian newspaper,
the photo “Hands of a Soldier” was included in the Top 100 Photos of 2023
selection according to Time magazine.
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of 250
Number: 151
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