Rude gestures are rare on postage stamps, but Ukraine's best known stamp has one. It shows a soldier raising the middle finger to a Russian warship in reference to a stand-off at Snake Island on day ...

Ihor Smilyansky, the head of Ukraine's postal company Ukrposhta ... of humour is added to Ukrposhta's stamps to maintain Ukrainian morale during the war with Russia. "Humour has become a fighting ...

Such is the significance of the stamp that whatever was left was given to government delegations representing Ukraine on the world stage. Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine is the birthplace of one of ...