Postal Blok "And there will be spring" 2024
"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.
Country - Ukraine
Release Date - 02/23/2024
The circulation - 250 000
Stamp № 2072-2075
Minisheet size - 145х100 mm
Number of stamps in the minisheet - 4 stamps