For Courage and Bravery

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 awardMay 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 awardAugust 24, 2015
Final awardAugust 24, 2015

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.

History

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

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

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

No. Unit insignia Unit name Branch of service Date of award
1 128th Mountain Assault Brigade "Zakarpattia" Ground Forces August 24, 2015[5]
2 55th Artillery Brigade "Zaporozhian Sich"
3 16th Army Aviation Brigade "Brody"
4 80th Air Assault Brigade "Halychyna" Air Assault Forces
5 299th Tactical Aviation Brigade "Vasyl Nikiforov" Air Force
6 8th Regiment of Operational Purpose "Ivan Bohun" (Now 14th Brigade) National Guard

Honorary Award "For Courage and Bravery"

No. Unit insignia Unit name Branch of service Date of award
1 24th Mechanized Brigade "King Daniel of Galicia" May 6, 2022[6]
2 28th Mechanized Brigade "Knights of the Winter Campaign"
3 30th Mechanized Brigade "Prince Konstantin Ostrozky"
4 72nd "Black Zaporozhian" Mechanized Infantry Brigade
5 92nd Mechanized Brigade "Koshovoho Otamana Ivana Sirka"
6 93rd "Kholodnyi Yar" Mechanized Infantry Brigade
7 128th Mountain Assault Brigade "Zakarpattia"
8 26th Artillery Brigade "Colonel-General Roman Dashkevich" May 22, 2022[7]
9 503rd Marine Battalion Marine Corps[8] June 3, 2022[9]
10 40th Tactical Aviation Brigade “Ghost of Kyiv” June 15, 2022[10]
11 831st Tactical Aviation Brigade
12 96th Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade "Kyivska"
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 Khmelnytskyi"
17 LSM Yuri Olefirenko Navy June 23, 2022[11][12]
18 29th Surface Vessels Division
19 25th Airborne Brigade "Sicheslav" June 28, 2022[13]
20 79th Air Assault Brigade "Tavria"
21 80th Air Assault Brigade "Halychyna"
22 81st Airmobile Brigade "Slobozhanske"
23 95th Air Assault Brigade "Polesia"
24 23rd Mariupol Sea Guard Unit State Border Guard Service July 27, 2022[14][15][16][17]
25 1st Mobile Border Guard Detachment "Hart"
26 8th Regiment of Operational Purpose "Ivan Bohun" (Now 14th Brigade)
27 4th Brigade of Operational Assignment
28 3rd Operational Brigade "Colonel Petro Bolbochan"
29 Eastern Special Operations Center "Prince Svyatoslav the Brave" Special Operations Forces July 29, 2022[18][19]
30 140th Special Operations Regiment
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 "Vasyl Nikiforov"
35 138th Anti-aircraft Missile Brigade "Dniprovska"
36 156th Anti-aircraft Missile Regiment "Maksym Krivonos"
37 301st Anti-aircraft Missile Regiment
38 Western Special Operations Center "Prince Izyaslav Mstislavych" August 24, 2022[21][22][23]
39 142nd Training Center
40 73rd Naval Special Operations Center "Chieftain Antin Holovaty"
41 15th National Guard Regiment "Sloviansk" (Now 18th Brigade) September 2, 2022[24]
42 3rd Border Detachment "Yevgeny Pikus" September 7, 2022[25]
43 11th (Kramatorsk) Border Detachment
44 1st Tank Brigade "Siversk" September 24, 2022[26]
45 40th Artillery Brigade "Grand Duke Vytautas"
46 57th Motorized Brigade "Otaman Kost Hordiienko"
47 12th Operational Brigade "Dmytro Vyshnevetsky" October 27, 2022[27][28]
48 9th Operational Regiment "Lieutenant Bohdan Zavada" (Now 15th Brigade)
49 43rd Artillery Brigade "Hetman Taras Triasylo" November 3, 2022[29][30]
50 44th Separate Artillery Brigade "Hetman Danylo Apostol"
51 122nd Airmobile Battalion, 81st Airmobile Brigade November 17, 2022[31][32]
52 132nd Reconnaissance Battalion
53 148th Howitzer Self-propelled Artillery Division
(Now Brigade)
54 3rd Battalion Tactical Group, 80th Air Assault Brigade
55 13th Airborne Assault Battalion "Colonel Taras Senyuk", 95th Air Assault Brigade
56 90th Airmobile Battalion "Senior Lieutenant Ivan Zubkov", 81st Airmobile Brigade
57 808th Support Brigade "Dnistrovska" Support Forces December 6, 2022[33][34][35][36][37][38][39]
58 302nd Anti-aircraft Missile Regiment "Kharkiv"
59 27th Artillery Brigade "Kish otaman Petro Kalnyshevskyi"
60 54th Mechanized Brigade "Hetman Ivan Mazepa"
61 15th Mountain Assault Battalion, 128th Mountain Assault Brigade
62 46th Airmobile Brigade
63 71st Jaeger Brigade (Now Airmobile)
64 138th Center for Special Purposes of the Military Police "Prince Volodymyr Svyatoslavych" Military Law Enforcement Service
65 4th (Kharkiv) Border Detachment February 11, 2023[40]
66 5th (Sumy) Border Detachment
67 27th National Guard Regiment "Prince Sviatoslav Yaroslavich" February 11, 2023[41][42]
68 2nd Special State Objects Guard Regiment "Shostkinsky"
69 79th (Kherson) Border Detachment April 30, 2023[43][44]
70 105th (Chernihiv) Border Detachment "Prince Volodymyr the Great"
71 10th Mobile Border Detachment
72 10th Mountain Assault Brigade "Edelweiss" May 5, 2023[45]
73 14th Mechanized Brigade "Prince Roman the Great"
74 56th Motorized Brigade "Mariupol"
75 406th Artillery Brigade "Ensign General Oleksa Almaziv" May 23, 2023[46]
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 Reconnaissance Battalion
81 88th Marine Air Assault Battalion, 35th Marine Brigade June 2, 2023
82 10th Naval Aviation Brigade "Colonel Ihor Bedzay"
83 540th Anti-aircraft Missile Brigade "Lviv Ivan Vyhovsky" August 5, 2023[47]
84 201st Anti-aircraft Missile Brigade "Hetman Pylyp Orlyk" August 23, 2023[48]
85 48th Engineering Brigade "Kamianets-Podilskyi" November 3, 2023[49]
86 808th Support Brigade "Dnistrovska"
87 107th Rocket Artillery Brigade "Kremenchuk" December 6, 2024[50]
88 38th Anti-aircraft Missile Regiment "Yury Tyutyunnyk"
89 102nd Territorial Defense Brigade "Dmytro Vitovsky" Territorial Defence Forces
90 38th Marine Brigade "Petro Sahaidachny"
91 47th Engineering Brigade June 28, 2025[51]
92 17th Poltava "Raid" Brigade
93 34th Kherson Regiment
94 50th Regiment "Semen Vysochan"
95 21st Mechanized Brigade August 23, 2025[52]
96 32nd Artillery Brigade September 30, 2025[53]
97 12th Army Aviation Brigade "Corporal General Viktor Pavlenko"
98 117th Heavy Mechanized Brigade
99 16th Separate Artillery Brigade
100 18th (Izmail) Marine Guard Detachment
101 1st (Odesa) Marine Guard Detachment
102 45th Artillery Brigade "Myron Tarnavskyi" December 12, 2025[54]
103 68th Jaeger Brigade "Oleksa Dovbush" (Now Airmobile)
104 16th Army Aviation Brigade "Brody"
105 18th Army Aviation Brigade "Igor Sikorsky"
106 456th Transport Aviation Brigade "Dmytro Maiboroda" February 9, 2026[55]
107 67th Mechanized Brigade February 23, 2026[56]
108 47th Artillery Brigade
109 11th Army Aviation Brigade "Kherson"
110 4th State Objects Protection Regiment "Pavlohrad"
111 115th Mechanized Brigade February 24, 2026[57][58][59]
112 23rd Mechanized Brigade
113 5th Assault Brigade "Kyiv"
114 82nd Air Assault Brigade "Bukovynska" March 14, 2026[60][61]
115 1039th Anti-aircraft Missile Regiment "General-Cornet Mykola Kapustiansky"
116 501st Separate Naval Infantry Battalion March 16, 2026[62]

See also

Notes

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