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For Courage and Bravery

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"
TypeUnit citation
Awarded forTo honor the courage and heroism shown during the defense of the state sovereignty, independence, and territorial integrity of Ukraine.
Country Ukraine
Presented byPresident of Ukraine
EstablishedMay 5, 2022
First awardedMay 6, 2022
Award of the President of Ukraine — Ribbon to the Battle Flag "For Courage and Bravery"
TypeUnit citation
Awarded forCourage 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 byPresident of Ukraine
StatusA draft decree authorizing the award was never made official.
EstablishedAugust 18, 2015 (by draft decree)
First awardedAugust 24, 2015
Last awardedAugust 24, 2015

History

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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

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Ribbon of the "For Courage and Bravery" award, 2022

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 unit's Battle Colour.

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

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Award of the President of Ukraine — Battle Colour Ribbon "For Courage and Bravery"

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No. Unit insignia Unit name Branch of service Date of award
1   128th Separate Mountain Brigade
 
Ground Forces 		August 24, 2015[5]
2   55th Separate Artillery Brigade
3   16th Separate Army Aviation Brigade
4   80th Separate Air Assault Brigade
 
Air Assault Forces
5   299th Tactical Aviation Brigade
 
Air Force

Honorary Award "For Courage and Bravery"

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No. Unit insignia Unit name Branch of service Date of award
1   24th Separate Mechanized Brigade "King Daniel of Galicia"
 
Ground Forces 		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 "Koshovoho Otamana Ivana Sirka"
6   93rd "Kholodnyi Yar" Separate Mechanized Infantry Brigade
7   128th Separate Mountain Assault Transcarpathian Brigade
8   26th Artillery Brigade "Colonel-General Roman Dashkevich"
 
Ground Forces 		May 22, 2022[7]
9   503rd Marine Battalion [uk]
 
Marine Corps[8] 		June 3, 2022[9]
10   40th Tactical Aviation Brigade
 
Air Force 		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
 
Navy 		June 23, 2022[11]
18   29th Surface Vessels Division June 23, 2022[12]
19   25th "Sicheslav" Airborne Brigade
 
Air Assault Forces 		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
 
State Border Guard Service 		July 27, 2022[14]
25   1st (Donetsk) Border Detachment
26   8th Regiment of Operational Purpose "Ivan Bohun"
 
National Guard 		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"
 
Special Operations Forces 		July 29, 2022[18]
30   140th Separate Center of Special Operations Forces July 29, 2022[19]
31   7th Tactical Aviation Brigade "Petro Franko"
 
Air Force 		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"
 
Special Operations Forces 		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
 
National Guard 		September 2, 2022[24]
42   3rd (Luhansk) Border Detachment "Hero of Ukraine Colonel Yevgeny Pikus"
 
State Border Guard Service 		September 7, 2022[25]
43   11th (Kramatorsk) Border Detachment
44   1st "Severia" Tank Brigade
 
Ground Forces 		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"
 
National Guard 		October 27, 2022[27]
48   9th Operational Regiment "Lieutenant Bohdan Zavada" October 27, 2022[28]
49   43rd Separate Artillery Brigade "Hetman Taras Tryasyl"
 
Ground Forces 		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
 
Air Assault Forces 		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"
 
Ground Forces 		December 6, 2022[33]
58   808th Pontoon Bridge Regiment December 6, 2022[34]
59   302nd Anti-Aircraft Missile Regiment Kharkiv
 
Air Force 		December 6, 2022[35]
60   54th Separate Mechanized Brigade "Hetman Ivan Mazepa"
 
Ground Forces 		December 6, 2022[36]
61   46th Separate Airmobile Brigade
 
Air Assault Forces 		December 6, 2022[37]
62   71st Separate Jaeger Infantry Brigade (Airmobile)
63   15th Separate Mountain Assault Battalion, 28th Separate Mountain Assault Transcarpathian Brigade
 
Ground Forces 		December 6, 2022[38]
64   138th Center for Special Purposes (Anti-Sabotage and Anti-Terrorism) of the Military Police "Prince Volodymyr Svyatoslavych"
 
Military Law Enforcement Service 		December 6, 2022[39]
65   4th (Kharkiv) Border Detachment
 
State Border Guard Service 		February 11, 2023[40]
66   5th (Sumy) Border Detachment
67   27th Regiment
 
National Guard 		February 11, 2023[41]
68   2nd Shostkin Protection Regiment February 11, 2023[42]
69   79th (Kherson) Border Detachment
 
State Border Guard Service 		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
 
Ground Forces 		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"
 
Marine Corps[46] 		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
 
Marine Corps 		June 2, 2023
82   10th Naval Aviation Brigade "Hero of Ukraine Colonel (NA) Ihor Bedzay", Ukrainian Naval Aviation
 
Navy
83   540th Anti-aircraft Missile Regiment
 
Air Force 		August 5, 2023[47]
84   201st Anti-aircraft Missile Brigade
 
Air Force 		August 23, 2023[48]

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ 24-ту річницю Незалежності Україна відзначила урочистим Маршем // Офіційне інтернет-представництво Президента України, 24 серпня 2015 (архів на archive.org)
  2. ^ 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
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  5. ^ Independence March on Khreschatyk in Kyiv. Online broadcast. TSN, Streamed live on Aug 24, 2015 on YouTube
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  8. ^ By time of award, Marine Corps was then part of Ukrainian Navy
  9. ^ "Указ Президента України №386/2022" [Decree of the President of Ukraine No. 386/2022] (in Ukrainian). June 3, 2022. Retrieved May 8, 2023.
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  46. ^ Separated from the Navy to become branch of AFU on its own right May 23, 2023, same day awards were made
  47. ^ "Про відзначення почесною відзнакою «3а мужність та відвагу»". 5 August 2023.
  48. ^ "Про відзначення почесною відзнакою «За мужність та відвагу»". 23 August 2023.
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