Japan has funded the installation of modular Ukrposhta branches in regions near the front lines

Twenty modern modular Ukrposhta branches have been set up in the Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Sumy, Zaporizhzhia, Chernihiv, and Kherson regions. The new facilities have been set up in communities where permanent post office buildings were completely destroyed or significantly damaged as a result of constant Russian shelling.

The mobile complexes were provided as part of the Emergency Recovery and Reconstruction Project, which the Ministry of Development is implementing in partnership with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) with financial support from the Government of Japan — the total amount of aid for the previous phases of this program has already exceeded $700 million. 

The modular facilities are fully equipped with everything necessary to provide basic services, which will allow local residents to receive their pensions and social benefits without interruption, as well as send and receive packages, even in communities where major construction is currently impossible. According to the relevant ministry, since the start of the full-scale invasion, Russia has completely destroyed 49 branches of the national postal operator, and another 648 have sustained various types of damage. 

This was announced by Oleksiy Kuleba, Deputy Prime Minister for the Reconstruction of Ukraine and Minister of Community and Territorial Development of Ukraine.

As of June 26, the national postal operator “Ukrposhta” had deployed 38 modular branches in de-occupied, frontline, and shelling-affected regions of Ukraine. The new branches provide residents with basic postal services, even in communities where infrastructure has been destroyed or is operating intermittently.

“Ukrposhta” suspended operations at its last stationary branch in the frontline town of Druzhkivka in Donetsk Oblast due to constant Russian shelling and the threat to employees and local residents.