Japan has delivered 20 fully operational modular post offices to frontline communities across six Ukrainian oblasts, allowing residents to receive pensions, social payments, and parcels where permanent branches have been destroyed or damaged by Russian attacks.
The branches are now operating in Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Sumy, Zaporizhzhia, Chernihiv, and Kherson oblasts, according to Ukraine's Ministry for Communities and Territories Development. Since the full-scale invasion began, Russia has completely destroyed 49 Ukrposhta branches, while another 648 have been damaged—leaving large swaths of frontline territory without stable access to postal and financial services. The modular units are designed to fill that gap while permanent reconstruction remains impossible.
The handover is part of Japan's Emergency Recovery and Reconstruction Project, implemented jointly with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). In total, since 2023, technical and grant assistance projects from the Japanese government, coordinated through JICA, have provided over $700 million in aid to Ukraine across energy, transport, healthcare, education, water supply, demining, and municipal facilities.
"Restoring access to public services in frontline communities is our absolute priority. Thanks to our Japanese partners, we are providing Ukrainians living near the front line with stable postal communication and services. These 20 modular branches mean that the state is there for people, even where permanent offices have been destroyed by Russian aggression," Deputy Prime Minister for the Reconstruction of Ukraine Oleksii Kuleba said.
The 20 modular Ukrposhta branches are part of a wider 66-unit technical equipment package Japan is transferring to Ukraine's frontline regions under the same project. The remaining equipment includes 40 units of heavy machinery for debris clearance in Sumy, Zaporizhzhia, and Chernihiv oblasts, as well as construction equipment and a training simulator for operators at a vocational center in Bila Tserkva.
