"And it will be spring!" — a postal issue with the most
iconic photos of the wartime, with which we honor
the heroic resistance of Ukrainians to the Russian
aggressor, which has been going on for 10 years.
Each stamp is a separate picture.
On
stamp No. 2072 "Capture of Belbek Airport".
Sevastopol, 2014." — a commemorative photo of the
war started by the Russian Federation against
Ukraine back in 2014 with the occupation of Crimea,
belongs to Kuba Kaminsky/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.
On stamp No. 2073 "Love
can't be stopped! Kharkiv,
2022". — photo by Serhiy Bobka/AFP captures a
fragile moment of love: medical volunteers in the
spring of 2022 at a wedding photo shoot in the yard
of a house destroyed by Russian missiles in Kharkiv.
On the stamp No. 2074 "Light
will win! "Azovstal".
Mariupol, 2022." — a warrior in the rays of the sun
on "Azovstal", which is a legendary self-portrait
taken by a defender with the call sign "Orest"
Dmytro Kozatsky in May 2022 during the heroic
defense of the Mariupol "fortress".
On stamp No. 2075 "Arms of an
infantryman.
Bakhmut, 2023." — a photo of an infantryman of the
28th brigade with the call sign "Snowball", which
was taken by Maksym Dondyuk a few hundred
meters from the enemy trenches on the outskirts of
Bakhmut in March 2023.
Photographs
reproduced on postage stamps won
prestigious awards: "Capture of Belbek Airport" -
first place in the Grand Press Photo 2014 contest;
"Light will win!" and "Love can't be stopped!"
entered the list of the best pictures of 2022
according to The Guardian newspaper; the photo
"Hands of an infantryman" - to the selection of the
best photos of 2023 according to the rating of Time
magazine.
Characteristics:
The
designer is Volodymyr Taran
Release date — 02/23/2024
Circulation — 250,000
The nominal value is
2xU+2xF
Ukrposhta catalog number — 207 (2072-2075)
Block
size, mm — 145x100
Stamp size, mm — 3x40.02x29.58,
29.58x40.02
The number of stamps in the block is 4