Ukraine's state postal service, Ukrposhta, is operating under constant threat of Russian drone strikes as it struggles to maintain deliveries of cash pensions, medicine, and food to elderly and isolated civilians in villages close to the front lines. The service's chief, Igor Smelyansky, monitors live intelligence each morning to decide which routes are safe enough to attempt that day, weighing the risk to staff against the needs of communities that depend almost entirely on postal vans for basic supplies. More than 50 Ukrposhta employees have been killed and hundreds of vehicles and branches destroyed since 2022, with Smelyansky saying Russia is deliberately targeting the service to undermine civilian resilience — an allegation Moscow denies.