For Courage and Bravery (Ukraine)
For Courage and Bravery (Ukrainian: За мужність та відвагу, romanized: Za muzhnistʹ ta vidvahu) is an honorary award established by the President of Ukraine to recognize distinguished combat performance, courage, bravery and heroism of units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, National Guard of Ukraine, State Border Service of Ukraine, Security Service of Ukraine, State Special Communications Service of Ukraine, State Special Transport Service of Ukraine, during the protection of state sovereignty, independence, territorial integrity of Ukraine, while conducting combat operations and performing special tasks.
| Honorary Award "For Courage and Bravery" | |
|---|---|
| Type | Unit Citation |
| Awarded for | To honor the courage and heroism shown during the defense of the state sovereignty, independence, and territorial integrity of Ukraine. |
| Country | Ukraine |
| Presented by | President of Ukraine |
| Established | May 5, 2022 |
| First awarded | May 6, 2022 |
| Award of the President of Ukraine — Ribbon to the Battle Flag "For Courage and Bravery" | |
|---|---|
| Type | Unit Citation |
| Awarded for | Courage and bravery, military prowess and high levels of combat training during the defense of Ukraine, protection of its sovereignty, territorial integrity and inviolability. |
| Country | Ukraine |
| Presented by | President of Ukraine |
| Status | A draft decree authorizing the award was never made official. |
| Established | August 18, 2015 (by draft decree) |
| First awarded | August 24, 2015 |
| Last awarded | August 24, 2015 |
History of the award edit
At meeting held at the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense on August 18, 2015, a proposal was made to develop a presidential award to be presented to the units that distinguished themselves in the anti-terrorist operation in the Donbas. It was decided that this award would take the form of an honorary ribbon to be attached to the staff of the unit's battle flag.
On the same day, the Minister of Defense, Colonel-General Stepan Poltorak, signed a letter addressed to the President Petro Poroshenko with a request to consider and sign the draft Decree of the President of Ukraine "On the award of the President of Ukraine – Ribbon to the Battle Flag "For Courage and Bravery". This decree was to have approved the regulations on the award and its design.
Without waiting for the signing of the decree, the Ministry of Defense decided to order the production of the ribbons. They were ready on August 21 and attached to the battle flags of the 14 units awarded them so they could be presented by President Poroshenko at the March of Independence held in Kyiv on August 24, 2015.
On November 19, 2015, the draft decree "On the award of the President of Ukraine – Ribbon to the Battle Flag "For Courage and Bravery" was considered by the State Awards and Heraldry Commission. At the time Ukrainian law did not provide for collective awards. Because of this the commission decided to propose to the Ministry of Defense "to work out the issue of the legal status of installing the Ribbon to the Battle Flag "For Courage and Bravery" as a non-state award."[1][2]
By the time of Russia's invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022 the legal barriers to Ukrainian state awards being presented to collective entities had been removed. On May 5, 2022, the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, issued a Decree establishing the honorary award "For Courage and Bravery." The award was established to recognize "the combat feats of personnel of military units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and other military formations, courage and heroism shown by servicemen in the struggle for the independence and territorial integrity of Ukraine, honoring their high fighting spirit and will to victory, as well as for the purpose of development of the traditions of the Ukrainian Ground Forces and its sister service branches of the Armed Forces."[3][4]
Description edit
The honorary award "For Courage and Bravery" is awarded by the President of Ukraine at the request of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. In the event that a military unit is awarded the "For Courage and Bravery" honor, a double-sided ribbon of green color (the 2015 version had a blue ribbon) is attached to the finial of the pole of the Regimental Battle Colour of the corresponding military unit, trimmed along the perimeter with a golden edging.
On one end of the ribbon, on both sides, the inscription "ЗА МУЖНІСТЬ ТА ВІДВАГУ" (FOR COURAGE AND BRAVERY) and the image of the Emblem of the Princely State of Volodymyr the Great in gold embroidery. The other end of the ribbon is decorated on both sides with a floral ornament and an image of the Sign of the President of Ukraine. The ends of the ribbon are decorated with gold fringe. The ribbon size is 250 x 12 cm. It is tied with a 30 cm bow with two horizontal rays and fastened with a blue-yellow rosette with a diameter of 10 cm. The ribbon is an integral part of the battle flag.
In the case of a military unit awarded the honorary award "For Courage and Bravery", that ribbon is placed on top of the blue ribbon with the inscription of the military unit's honorary title.
Servicemen of military units awarded the "For Courage and Bravery" ribbon can wear signs indicating their affiliation to the respective military units. Descriptions and drawings of such signs, and the order of their wearing are to be established by the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.[2][3][4]
Awards edit
Award of the President of Ukraine — Battle Colour Ribbon "For Courage and Bravery" edit
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| No. | Unit Insignia | Unit Name | Branch of Service | Date of Award | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 128th Separate Mountain Brigade | August 24, 2015[5] | |||
| 2 | 55th Separate Artillery Brigade | ||||
| 3 | 16th Separate Army Aviation Brigade | ||||
| 4 | 80th Separate Air Assault Brigade | ||||
| 5 | 299th Tactical Aviation Brigade |
Honorary Award "For Courage and Bravery" edit
| No. | Unit Insignia | Unit Name | Branch of Service | Date of Award | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 24th Separate Mechanized Brigade "King Daniel of Galicia" | May 6, 2022[6] | |||
| 2 | 28th Separate Mechanized Brigade "Knights of the Winter Campaign" | ||||
| 3 | 30th Separate Mechanized Brigade "Prince Konstantin Ostrozky" | ||||
| 4 | 72nd "Black Zaporozhian" Mechanized Infantry Brigade | ||||
| 5 | 92nd Separate Mechanized Brigade "Koshovo Ataman Ivan Sirk" | ||||
| 6 | 93rd "Kholodnyi Yar" Separate Mechanized Infantry Brigade | ||||
| 7 | 128th Separate Mountain Assault Transcarpathian Brigade | ||||
| 8 | 26th Artillery Brigade "Colonel-General Roman Dashkevich" | May 22, 2022[7] | |||
| 9 | 503rd Marine Battalion [uk] | June 3, 2022[9] | |||
| 10 | 40th Tactical Aviation Brigade | June 15, 2022[10] | |||
| 11 | 831st Tactical Aviation Brigade | ||||
| 12 | 96th Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade Kyiv | ||||
| 13 | 160th Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade Odesa | ||||
| 14 | 11th Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment | ||||
| 15 | 223rd "Ukrainian Sich Riflemen" Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment | ||||
| 16 | 14th Radio Engineering Brigade "Bohdan Khmelnytsky" | ||||
| 17 | LSM Yuri Olefirenko | June 23, 2022[11] | |||
| 18 | 29th Surface Vessels Division | June 23, 2022[12] | |||
| 19 | 25th "Sicheslav" Airborne Brigade | June 28, 2022[13] | |||
| 20 | 79th "Mykolaiv" Separate Air Assault Brigade | ||||
| 21 | 80th Separate Air Assault Brigade | ||||
| 22 | 81st Separate Airmobile Brigade | ||||
| 23 | 95th Separate Air Assault Brigade | ||||
| 24 | 23rd Mariupol Sea Guard Unit | July 27, 2022[14] | |||
| 25 | 1st (Donetsk) Border Detachment | ||||
| 26 | 8th Regiment of Operational Purpose "Ivan Bohun" | July 27, 2022[15] | |||
| 27 | 4th "Rubizh" Operational Brigade "Hero of Ukraine Sergeant Serhiy Mykhalchuk" | July 27, 2022[16] | |||
| 28 | 3rd Operational Brigade "Colonel Petro Bolbochan" | July 27, 2022[17] | |||
| 29 | Eastern Special Operations Center (Separate) "Prince Svyatoslav the Brave" | July 29, 2022[18] | |||
| 30 | 140th Separate Center of Special Operations Forces | July 29, 2022[19] | |||
| 31 | 7th Tactical Aviation Brigade "Petro Franko" | August 24, 2022[20] | |||
| 32 | 39th Tactical Aviation Brigade | ||||
| 33 | 114th Tactical Aviation Brigade | ||||
| 34 | 299th Tactical Aviation Brigade "Lieutenant General Vasyl Nikiforov" | ||||
| 35 | 138th Anti-Aircraft Defense Missile Artillery Brigade Dnipro | ||||
| 36 | 156th Anti-Aircraft Defense Missile Artillery Regiment "Maksym Krivonos" | ||||
| 37 | 301st Anti-Aircraft Defense Missile Artillery Regiment | ||||
| 38 | Western Separate Special Operations Center "Prince Izyaslav Mstislavich" | August 24, 2022[21] | |||
| 39 | 142nd Training Center | August 24, 2022[22] | |||
| 40 | Southern Separate Special Operations Center "Chief of Staff Antin Holovaty" | August 24, 2022[23] | |||
| 41 | 15th Separate NG Regiment Slovyansk | September 2, 2022[24] | |||
| 42 | 3rd (Luhansk) Border Detachment "Hero of Ukraine Colonel Yevgeny Pikus" | September 7, 2022[25] | |||
| 43 | 11th (Kramatorsk) Border Detachment | ||||
| 44 | 1st "Severia" Tank Brigade | September 24, 2022[26] | |||
| 45 | 40th Separate Field Artillery Brigade "Grand Duke Vytautas" | ||||
| 46 | 57th Separate Motorized Infantry Brigade "Otaman Kost Hordiienko" | ||||
| 47 | 12th Operational Brigade "Dmytro Vyshnevetskyi" | October 27, 2022[27] | |||
| 48 | 9th Operational Regiment "Lieutenant Bohdan Zavada" | October 27, 2022[28] | |||
| 49 | 43rd Separate Artillery Brigade "Hetman Taras Tryasyl" | November 3, 2022[29] | |||
| 50 | 44th Separate Artillery Brigade "Hetman Danylo Apostol" | November 3, 2022[30] | |||
| 51 | 122nd Separate Airmobile Battalion, 81st Separate Airmobile Brigade | November 17, 2022[31] | |||
| 52 | 132nd Separate Reconnaissance Battalion | ||||
| 53 | 148th Separate Howitzer Self-propelled Artillery Battalion (Air-Transportable) (currently Brigade) | ||||
| 54 | 3rd Battalion Tactical Group, 80th Separate Air Assault Brigade | November 17, 2022[32] | |||
| 55 | 13th Separate Airborne Assault Battalion "Hero of Ukraine Colonel Taras Senyuk", 95th Air Assault Brigade | ||||
| 56 | 90th Separate Airmobile Battalion "Hero of Ukraine Senior Lieutenant Ivan Zubkov", 81st Airmobile Brigade | ||||
| 57 | 27th Rocket Artillery Brigade "Koshovo Ataman Pyotr Kalnyshevskyi" | December 6, 2022[33] | |||
| 58 | 808th Pontoon Bridge Regiment | December 6, 2022[34] | |||
| 59 | 302nd Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment Kharkiv | December 6, 2022[35] | |||
| 60 | 54th Separate Mechanized Brigade "Hetman Ivan Mazepa" | December 6, 2022[36] | |||
| 61 | 46th Separate Airmobile Brigade | December 6, 2022[37] | |||
| 62 | 71st Separate Jaeger Infantry Brigade (Airmobile) | ||||
| 63 | 15th Separate Mountain Assault Battalion, 28th Separate Mountain Assault Transcarpathian Brigade | December 6, 2022[38] | |||
| 64 | 138th Center for Special Purposes (Anti-Sabotage and Anti-Terrorism) of the Military Police "Prince Volodymyr Svyatoslavych" | December 6, 2022[39] | |||
| 65 | 4th (Kharkiv) Border Detachment | February 11, 2023[40] | |||
| 66 | 5th (Sumy) Border Detachment | ||||
| 67 | 27th Regiment | February 11, 2023[41] | |||
| 68 | 2nd Shostkin Protection Regiment | February 11, 2023[42] | |||
| 69 | 79th (Kherson) Border Detachment | April 30, 2023[43] | |||
| 70 | 105th (Chernihiv) Border Detachment "Prince Volodymyr the Great" | ||||
| 71 | 10th Mobile Border Detachment | April 30, 2023[44] | |||
| 72 | 10th "Edelweiss" Separate Mountain Assault Infantry Brigade | May 5, 2023[45] | |||
| 73 | 14th Separate Mechanized Infantry Brigade "Prince Roman the Great" | ||||
| 74 | 56th "Mariupol" Separate Motorized Infantry Brigade | ||||
| 75 | 406th Marine Artillery Brigade "Brigadier General Oleksii Almazov" | May 23, 2023 | |||
| 76 | 35th Marine Brigade "Rear Admiral Mykhailo Ostrohradskyi" | ||||
| 77 | 18th Marine Battalion, 35th Marine Brigade | ||||
| 78 | 137th Marine Battalion, 35th Marine Brigade | ||||
| 79 | Marine Corps General Command | ||||
| 80 | 140th Marine Force Reconnaissance Battalion UkrMC | ||||
| 81 | 88th Marine Battalion (Air Assault), 35th Marine Brigade | June 2, 2023 | |||
| 82 | 10th Naval Aviation Brigade "Hero of Ukraine Colonel (NA) Ihor Bedzay", Ukrainian Naval Aviation |
See also edit
Notes edit
- ^ 24-ту річницю Незалежності Україна відзначила урочистим Маршем // Офіційне інтернет-представництво Президента України, 24 серпня 2015 ( на archive.org)
- ^ a b Стрічка до Бойового Прапора військової частини «За мужність та відвагу» // Микола Чмир. Надруковано: Знак. — 2016. — Ч. 68. — С. 11. // Сайт Ukrainian Military Pages www.ukrmilitary.com
- ^ a b "Указ Президента України №310/2022" [Decree of the President of Ukraine No. 310/2022] (in Ukrainian). May 5, 2022. Retrieved May 8, 2023.
- ^ a b "Указ Президента України №451/2022" [Decree of the President of Ukraine No. 451/2022] (in Ukrainian). June 28, 2022. Retrieved May 8, 2023.
- ^ Independence March on Khreschatyk in Kyiv. Online broadcast. TSN, Streamed live on Aug 24, 2015 on YouTube
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- ^ By time of award, Marine Corps was then part of Ukrainian Navy
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- ^ Separated from the Navy to become branch of AFU on its own right May 23, 2023, same day awards were made