Ukraine Post Ukrainian Resistance to Russian Aggression

UKRPOSHTA (UKRAINE POST) has issued three different versions of a stamp based on the illustration rendered from this post card. It refers to an incident early in the Ukraine-Russian War when the Russian warship “Moskva” (“Moscow”) approached Snake Island (Zmiinyi Island, Ukraine) and demanded Ukrainian border guards surrender. To this ultimatum, the Ukrainian soldiers (who were small in number and did not have the opportunity to escape or hide) suggested that the Russian warship go f*** itself. Afterwards, the phrase became a symbol of Ukrainian resistance against  Russian aggression.

 Ultimately the missile cruiser Moskva -- the Russian Navy flagship of the Black Sea Fleet -- was sunk on 14 April 2022, following a strike on 13 April 2022 in the area of Snake Island, by two missiles from the Ukrainian coastal missile system RK-360MTs “Neptune”.

Subsequently, Ukraine issued different stamp versions, among them being these stamps. Shown here are two different covers with the stamps, as well as a non-stamped post card of a Cossack couple.

 

Olesya Oleksandrivna Vakulenko is the artist. She was born on 30 June 1989 in Kharkiv. In 2012, she graduated from the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts, majoring in "Artistic Fabric Modeling". Member of the National Union of Masters of Folk Art of Ukraine. she works in the genres of Ukrainian decorative painting, book and easel graphics, embroidery, batik, clothing painting, and graphic design.