Ukraine's postal workers deliver lifeline under Russian fire
The state post service delivers pensions, medicine and letters to people just miles from the front.
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"If it's too dangerous to go today, we won't go."
— Igor Smelyansky , Executive
"It's not an accident, it's deliberate."
— Igor Smelyansky , Executive
"It's a long way for us to travel to Zaporizhzhia. Especially now, at a time when there are attacks all around us."
— Kateryna Marynich , Other
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The state post service delivers pensions, medicine and letters to people just miles from the front.
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