“President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky signed a decree on the award of honorary honors “City-Hero of Ukraine” 16 settlements, noting their role in the protection of the country during the war with Russia”, – WRITE: www.radiosvoboda.org
According to the decision of the Head of State, such status will now have frontier cities in Donetsk region (Druzhkivka, Konstantinovka, Kramatorsk, Slavyansk, Pokrovsk), Zaporozhye (Gulyaipole and Orikhiv), Dnipropetrovsk (Pavlograd, Manganese, Nikopol).
Also included in the list included the cities of Bashtanka and Voznesensk in the Nikolaev area, which played an important role in stopping the promotion of troops of the Russian Federation in 2022, and the city of Starokostiantyniv in Khmelnytskyi, which is an important element of Ukraine’s defense and regularly undergo Russian shelling.
The decree states that the decision was made “in order to celebrate the feat, mass heroism and the stability of citizens, discovered in the protection of their cities during the reconciling the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine.”
In the appeal, after promulgation of the decree, Zelensky called these 16 settlements “cities that rescued thousands of lives of our people.”
In total, 26 cities have a distinction of the hero city. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy established the Honorary Distinction “City-Hero of Ukraine” on March 6, 2022 and awarded it to Volnovak, Gostomel, Mariupol, Kharkiv, Kherson and Chernihiv, and on March 24, 2022-Bucha, Irpen, Mykolaiv and Okhtyrka.