January 4, 2023
WSJ Reports:
“Ukraine—Standing behind her post office counter with bricks of cash, a calculator and a flashlight, Lyudmila Gulovskaya distributes Ukrainian state pensions to a line of eager onlookers in this front-line village near Kherson. For these pensioners, it is the first money they have received from Kyiv in six months, after their villages in surrounding areas were occupied by Russian soldiers.
For Ms. Gulovskaya, it is the most tangible proof yet that their government has returned.
“We’re back in business,” she said, with the sound of artillery in the distance. “People are poor here; they wouldn’t survive here without the post office.”