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«And there will be spring!»
Each stamp is a separate photo. Stamp No. 2072
"Seizure of the Belbek Airport. Sevastopol, 2014" is a commemorative
photograph of the war launched by Russia against Ukraine in 2014 with the
occupation of Crimea. The photo capturing the episode of the seizure of the
Belbek airport in Sevastopol was taken by the Polish photographer Kuba
Kaminsky/PAP, who miraculously managed to hide the image from the Russian
invaders, so that the whole world could see it. Stamp No. 2073 "Love Can't
Be Stopped! Kharkiv, 2022" by Sergey Bobok/AFP immortalizes a fragile
moment of love: volunteer medics at a wedding photo shoot in the courtyard of a
building destroyed by Russian missiles in Kharkiv in the spring of 2022. Stamp
No. 2074 "Light Will Win! Azovstal. Mariupol, 2022" features a
warrior in the sunshine at Azovstal, a legendary self-portrait taken by a
defender with the call sign "Orest", Dmytro Kozatski in May 2022
during the heroic defense of the Mariupol "fortress". Stamp No. 2075
"Hands of an Infantryman. Bakhmut, 2023" features a photo of an
infantryman of the 28th Brigade with the call sign "Snowball", taken
by Maxim Dondyuk a few hundred meters from enemy trenches on the outskirts of
Bakhmut in March 2023. The photos reproduced on the postage stamps have won
prestigious awards: "Seizure of the Belbek Airport" won first place
in the Grand Press Photo 2014 competition; "Light Will Win!" and
"Love Can't Be Stopped!" were included in The Guardian list of the
best photos of 2022; "Hands of an Infantryman" was included in the
selection of the best photos of 2023 by the Time magazine.
Issue date — 23.02.2024
Printing — 250 000
Block size, mm — 145х100
Stamp size, mm — 3х40,02х29,58, 29,58х40,02
The number of stamps in the block — 4