Just a couple of days after Ukraine’s nationwide submit workplace issued some cheeky stamps honoring the defiant Ukranian border guard who flipped off a Russian warship, Ukraine’s National Post Office, Ukrposhta, reported an enormous cyberattack, that means that—a minimum of for now—you most likely gained’t be capable to purchase these stamps on-line.

Ukrposhta Director General Igor Smelyansky didn’t identify a wrongdoer behind the distributed-denial-of-service (DDOS) assault on the company’s website. Given Russia’s penchant for state-run cyberattacks on Ukrainian domains and ongoing land invasion of Ukraine, it’s not a leap of religion to guess somebody on that facet of the 2 nations’ border had one thing to do with it.

“As of now, DDOS is still going on—an attack on our systems,” he wrote in a translated Facebook submit Friday morning. “And although we have been able to partially restore them, it still does not allow the launch of an online store in a stable mode.”

He added that the Office was “[doing] everything” to revive the net retailer, together with “other Ukrposhti systems” that had been downed by the assault.

This places a damper on worldwide stamp gross sales, however collectible is probably going nonetheless doing gangbusters in Kyiv, the place the central submit workplace is housed. Reports emerged from the town earlier this week that lots of of Ukranians proudly lined up to nab one of many stamp sheets honoring Ukranian border guard Roman Hrybov, whom you would possibly know because the man who stared down the Russian warship Moskova from Snake Island and informed it to “go fuck [itself].” Ukrainian forces later sunk the Moskova, the most important ship within the Russian fleet, with missiles, in line with the Pentagon. Postal portrait apart, Hrybov was additionally awarded a national medal for his bravery after being captured by Russian forces.

In one other act of defiance, it doesn’t look just like the cyberattack towards the stamp-sellers was 100% profitable. Smelyansky famous in certainly one of his bulletins that throughout the Friday assault, roughly 9,500 prospects had been capable of put orders by. He went on to notice that the Office would settle for a minimum of one other 7,000 after the techniques had been again up and working. A single high-stakes “fuck you” can resonate not solely with a complete nation, however the world.