On September 1, on the Day of Knowledge, as planned , Ukrposhta put into circulation the previously announced charity stamps “Dog Patron” with the legendary mine-clearing dog Patron is a Ukrainian explosives sniffer dog, Jack Russell Terrier, the mascot of the Emergency Situations Service of Ukraine, which gained great popularity during the Russian-Ukrainian war and in a short time became a symbol of the invincibility of the Ukrainian people in the fight against Russian invaders. During the war with Russia, he helped rescuers find dozens of explosive devices in the Chernihiv region. – the postal operator plans to raise more than 1 million euros for the purchase of the Armtrac 400 demining machine The Mechanized Demining Vehicle is the largest and most powerful in the product line, which can be operated remotely by an operator at a safe distance up to 800 meters away or produced from an armored cab. , which can mine up to 2400 sq m per hour and help animal shelters through the KSE Foundation. This is the country’s first charity stamp and the 6th in the wartime series.

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A stamp sheet of 8 stamps printed on self-adhesive paper was issued in a circulation of 1 million copies, that is, a total of 8 million stamps. The cost of each postage stamp is UAH 31, of which the nominal value is F (UAH 23), and the charity fee is UAH 8. Accordingly, the cost of the sheet is UAH 248, of which UAH 64 is a charitable component. Also released are First Day envelopes, C6 and DL art envelopes, and a postcard.

In addition to the stamps, Ukrposhta has released merch: t-shirts, hoodies, magnets, badges, a backpack for shoes, stickers and a cup with the image of Patron the dog.

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Where to buy a new brand online in Ukraine and abroad

As always, you can buy a new stamp and thematic merch for it at post offices of cities and villages of Ukraine (some of the stamps will go to rural branches of Ukrposhta front-line branches), as well as online (from 11:00) in the official online stores of Ukrposhta at Prom , Kasta , Rozetka , eBay and Amazon . The day before, Ukrposhta CEO Igor Smilyansky said that since the opening of the online store on eBay and Amazon, sales of Ukrposhta have already amounted to UAH 5.3 million. A third of the orders came from the USA; buyers from Germany, Canada, Great Britain and Hong Kong also show the greatest activity.

Restrictions: As with previous postage issues, certain sales restrictions will apply to avoid speculation – no more than 5 stamp sheets, 5 flyers, 5 art envelopes per order. Special sets with special redemption can only be purchased on the eBay and Amazon online platforms and in the Ukrposhta postal store – no more than two sets per order.

The solemn special repayment was held with the participation of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky and first-graders of the Irpin Secondary School of I-III degree art profile No. A. S. Makarenko, special redemption – in the regions of Ukraine. Stamps of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Sevastopol and Kherson will work in the Kiev main post office, Luhansk region – in the city of Pokrovsk, Donetsk region.

“Dog Patron” – briefly about the brand

This postal issue of Ukrposhta is dedicated to the heroes-rescuers who, together with their four-legged helpers, carry out demining of the liberated territories: cities, villages, fields, forests, beaches. It was implemented in partnership with the State Emergency Service.

The illustrations for the postage issue “Dog Patron” were drawn by illustrator Alexander Nikityuk, a participant in the competition for the design of the postage stamp “Good evening, we are from Ukraine!” . The stamp sheet contains 8 different postage stamps depicting Patron’s dog, in particular, on a field cultivated by Ukrainian farmers in spite of the danger, in a residential area where residents must return after the UAF liberated the city from invaders, on a playground, because Statistics show that it is children who suffer the most from mines.

“I have been drawing all my life anywhere: at a school desk in Varash (Rivne region), in a barracks (Poltava and Kyiv), in a student hostel (OGPU and ONU named after I. I. Mechnikov), I have always painted. When the war started, I realized that drawing is an excellent therapy that helps to distract, direct your energy to create something new.

Work on the list of stamps was carried out for almost a month, it was an interesting and urgent task”,

Alexander Nikityuk,

designer-illustrator

Philatelic online subscription

For those who want to have Ukrposhta postal issues in their collection, however, there is no way to track them and buy stamps in the traditional way – until 24:00 on September 1, there is an opportunity to purchase online philatelic subscriptions for 5 months . The subscription price, in addition to the subscription fee, already includes the cost of postal products in August, and in the “Standard +” package, the cost of an exclusive klyaser.