In the villages near Ukraine's front lines, where banks have closed and shops have emptied, the postal worker has become something closer to a lifeline than a letter carrier. Ukrposhta, Ukraine's state postal service, continues to deliver pensions, medicine, and food to millions of elderly and isolated citizens, even as Russia systematically targets its staff, vehicles, and offices — killing more than fifty workers since 2022. The choice its director faces each morning — send the van or withhold it — is a quiet emblem of a larger truth: that in modern war, the battle for civilian survival is w
Ukraine's postal workers risk fire to deliver pensions and medicine to frontline villages
Over 50 Ukrposhta staff have been killed since 2022; hundreds of branches and vehicles destroyed; postmistress Kateryna Marynych lost her home and husband during invasion.