The Ukrainian post office issued a stamp on Tuesday with the radio message “Russian warship, f… you”. This refers to a radio message from a Ukrainian border guard stationed on Snake Island in the Black Sea. When the soldiers there had been radioed by the Russians to surrender, he had given the ship’s crew exactly these words.
Soldier Roman Hrybow, responsible for the saying and celebrated as a hero in Ukraine, is said to be present at the brand’s presentation, the Ukrainian Post wrote on Facebook. “Without him there would be no stamp, nor would there be such a strong resistance as the soldiers of Snake Island,” CNN quoted the Ukrainian Postal Administration as saying.
It was initially believed that all the soldiers on Snake Island were killed, but a few days after the memorable radio message, the Ukrainian fleet announced that the 13 men had survived. They were captured by the Russian Navy and later released in a prisoner exchange.
Users could vote for the brand’s motive
At the beginning of March, the Ukrainian Post invited artists to submit their proposals for the design of the new stamp. More than 500 motifs were submitted and the Post published the best 20 of them on its Facebook page and called on users to vote for the winning motif.
The motif submitted by the artist Boris Groh ultimately made the difference. It received a total of more than 1,700 out of 8,000 votes. The Ukrainian shared his illustration of the events on Snake Island on Twitter on February 28 (tweet below).
Artist left the Crimean peninsula in 2014
Groh lived in Crimea, but was forced to leave his homeland after the Russian occupation in 2014 and eventually moved to Lviv, the Post wrote about the artist when announcing the winner.
The philatelic work can now be purchased at the country’s main post offices or online, the Ukrainian Post wrote on Facebook on Tuesday afternoon.
Source: Krone
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