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
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.
- Date
- April 12, 2022
- Period
- Contemporary
- Made by
- Ukrposhta (Ukrainian state postal operator); artist Boris Groh
- Country
- Ukraine
- Medium
- Stamp
- Issuer type
- State
- Regime
- Zelensky Government
- Leader
- Volodymyr Zelensky
- Audience
- Mixed
- Purpose
- Commemorate
- Theme
- War and the military
- Techniques
- Transfer
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons, retrieved October 2, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain in Ukraine (Commons PD-UA-exempt, stamps; Law on Copyright art. 8)
Ukrposhta, stamp design by Boris Groh (2022), via Wikimedia Commons. Commons notes the work is in the public domain in Ukraine and 'possibly in other jurisdictions'.
Text on the object
Україна Ukraina 2022 W [artist credit in small capitals at top: BORIS GROH]
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.
