Motif shows grated Kremlin
Ukraine advertises fighter jets with stamps
08/04/2023 8:24 p.m
A cheese grater crushing the Kremlin – this motif adorns a Ukrainian commemorative stamp. The postal authority wants to use the campaign to promote the delivery of F-16 fighter planes, with the proceeds going to the army. People are queuing in Kiev.
The Post of Ukraine has issued a new series of stamps, on which the F-16 fighter jets demanded by the government in Kiev in the fight against the Russian invaders are depicted in an unusual way F-16 fighters pictured rasping the towers of the Kremlin in Moscow.
Hundreds of people lined up at Kiev’s main post office to purchase the new stamps. These are sold together with envelopes of a similar design. According to the Ukrainian postal authority Ukrposhta, the stamp series with the name “Annihilator of Evil” is intended to make it clear that Ukraine “urgently” needs the F-16 fighter jets. The Kremlin is a “symbol of the evil empire”. For Ukraine it is a “priority task” to get the US fighter jets in order to “change the balance of power in favor of Ukraine”.
The stamps, designed by the Ukrainian illustrator Maksym Palenko, were initially issued in a circulation of 600,000. A sheet of four stamps costs 156 hryvnia (the equivalent of 3.83 euros). They are primarily aimed at collectors, and the proceeds are to be used to buy combat drones for the Ukrainian military.
Since the beginning of the Russian war of aggression in February 2022, the Ukrainian Post has already issued several war stamps with extremely popular motifs. Among them is an image by British street artist Banksy and an image of a Ukrainian soldier giving the middle finger to a Russian warship.