---
title: Ukrposhta 'Russian warship, go...!' postage stamp, denomination W
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ukrposhta-russian-warship-stamp-2022/
description: A Ukrainian postage stamp showing a soldier in body armour, back to the viewer, raising a middle finger at a grey Russian-flagged warship across the water.
section: Collection
---

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**Content note:** Wartime state stamp showing a soldier making an obscene gesture at a Russian warship. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[![Ukrposhta 'Russian warship, go...!' postage stamp, denomination W](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/ukrposhta-russian-warship-stamp-2022.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/ukrposhta-russian-warship-stamp-2022.jpg)

# Ukrposhta 'Russian warship, go...!' postage stamp, denomination W

A Ukrainian postage stamp showing a soldier in body armour, back to the viewer, raising a middle finger at a grey Russian-flagged warship across the water. The tell is the official frame: the state trident, 'Україна', the year 2022 and a face-value letter turn a front-line moment into a state postal issue, so the prestige of the Snake Island episode is carried onto the issuing state.

## Text on the object

Original (Ukrainian and English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
Україна
Ukraina
2022
W
[artist credit in small capitals at top: BORIS GROH]
```

English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader)

```
Ukraine
Ukraina
2022
W [face-value letter]
[artist credit: Boris Groh]
```

The stamp face carries no slogan. 'Ukraina' is the Latin-script country name. The artist's credit is very small, in capitals beside the country name.

[← Address 'Drive the occupiers out, drive these slaves out' to the residents of Ukrainian cities](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/zelenskyy-drive-out-slaves-address-2022/) [Protests in front of SCOTUS after Dobbs →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/dobbs-day-supreme-court-2022/)

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