President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has signed a decree on the establishment of the honorary award "Savior Community" to commemorate the courage, mercy and solidarity shown by residents of territorial communities in defending Ukraine's independence during the repulsion of russian armed aggression.
The decree on the new honorary award was published on the website of the Office of the President, Ukrainian News Agency reports.
The "Savior Community" award will be awarded to territorial communities of Ukraine whose residents massively provide humanitarian protection and other types of assistance to territorial communities located in front-line regions, in occupied and deoccupied territories.
The basis for the award is also the participation of residents in strengthening the state's defense capabilities and other significant support for Ukraine's independence.
Along with the award, the community will be presented with a statuette in a case and a commemorative plaque.
After the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, awards for settlements were already introduced.
26 cities were awarded the title "Hero City of Ukraine": Bucha, Volnovakha, Hostomel, Irpin, Mariupol, Mykolaiv, Okhtyrka, Kharkiv, Kherson, Chernihiv, Pavlohrad, Nikopol, Marhanets, Druzhkivka, Kramatorsk, Kostiantynivka, Pokrovsk, Slovyansk, Hulyaipole, Orikhiv, Voznesensk, Bashtanka, Sumy, Trostianets, Kupyansk, Starokostiantyniv.
12 European cities were awarded the "Savior City" award, whose residents massively helped Ukrainian refugees.
Among them are Polish Warsaw, Rzeszów, Przemyśl, Lublin, Chełm and Gdańsk, Czech Prague, Lithuanian Vilnius, French Paris and Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Hungarian Budapest and Estonian Tallinn.
As Ukrainian News Agency earlier reported, on June 10 in Kyiv, the Soviet award star was dismantled from the stele "Kyiv - Hero City" at the entrance to the capital from the Obukhiv highway.
After removal, the structural element is planned to be transferred to the O.K. Antonov State Aviation Museum.
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