Zelenskyy honours 16 settlements with Hero City of Ukraine title

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has awarded the title of Hero City of Ukraine to 16 additional settlements across seven oblasts.

Source: Zelenskyy in an address; decree of the President of Ukraine

Quote: "Today, on the Day of Defenders, on the Feast of the Intercession of the Theotokos, we in Ukraine honour everyone who has contributed to the defence of our state, who has made every effort so that our country can endure. And on this day, it is only right that we recognise our hromadas too, those cities that often bear the greatest burden in defence and resilience. I have signed a decree. Cities that have saved thousands of lives of our people. Cities that defend our entire state – in the most literal sense." [A hromada is an administrative unit designating a village, several villages, or a town, and their adjacent territories – ed.]

Details: Cities and towns newly bearing the Hero City of Ukraine title are:

Pavlohrad, Nikopol and Marhanets in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast

Druzhkivka, Kramatorsk, Kostiantynivka, Pokrovsk and Sloviansk in Donetsk Oblast

Huliaipole and Orikhiv in Zaporizhzhia Oblast

Voznesensk and Bashtanka in Mykolaiv Oblast

Sumy and Trostianets in Sumy Oblast

Kupiansk in Kharkiv Oblast

Starokostiantyniv in Khmelnytskyi Oblast.

Background: In 2022, Zelenskyy awarded the title of Hero City of Ukraine to 10 settlements, including Bucha, Mariupol, Irpin, Mykolaiv, Kherson and Chernihiv.

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