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Ukraine's postal service is a Kremlin target. They showed us how they're still delivering the mail.

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Ukraine's postal service is a Kremlin target. They showed us how they're still delivering the mail.

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https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine ... ?r=US&IR=T

Ukrposhta, Ukraine's postal service, delivers cash pensions to 3.5 million retirees every month.
Its CEO, Igor Smelyansky, is rumored to be on a Russian kill list.
Photographer Alan Chin accompanied postal workers in western Ukraine.


Novoiavorivsk, Ukraine – The normal operations of Ukrposhta, Ukraine's national postal service, came to a screeching halt in the predawn hours of Feb. 24 when the first Russian bombs and missiles struck Ukraine.

Igor Smelyansky, its CEO, was told he was on Putin's kill/capture list of key Ukrainian leaders. That first morning, after being awoken by phone calls, he "went to the office, got my computer, and destroyed sensitive data." Since then, he's been on the move from one undisclosed location to another, running Ukrposhta's operations with a phone and a laptop, in constant communication with his teams.

If it seems surprising that a postmaster might be designated a high-priority target for an invading enemy, consider that Ukrposhta has over 3,000 vehicles and several airplanes, 60,000 workers including 4,000 who are armed, and over 10,000 post offices. Some of Ukrposhta's trucks have been used to carry food and medicine in what Smelyansky calls the "humanitarian bridge from Slovakia, Poland, Romania, and Poland."

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