During the three months of Ukraine's opposition to the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation, 15 thousand 227 Ukrainians and Ukrainian women were awarded state awards. This was announced by President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky in an address dedicated to the results of the 90th day of defense of our country..

“Of these, 12 thousand 550 servicemen of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. 1801 soldier of the National Guard. 205 border guards. 182 policemen. 167 SBU employees. 138 representatives of the State Emergency Service. 99 GUR warriors. 38 employees of the State Special Communications Service. And also - employees of the State Security Department, the Foreign Intelligence Service, NABU, the State Security Bureau and the Judicial Security Service, who also contributed to our defense,"

According to him, 155 citizens of our state were awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine. 75 of them received it posthumously.

For three months, Ukrainian defenders managed to de-occupy 1016 settlements.

“And each of these numbers is a story. A story of extraordinary courage and self-sacrifice. This is the heroic defense of Mariupol. These are successes in the battles for Kyiv, Chernihiv, Sumy and Kharkov. This is a heroic defense in the Donbass. This is the protection of Odessa, Nikolaev and our entire south.

These are protests and resistance in those cities and communities of Ukraine that we have yet to liberate,” the President said..

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He stressed that Ukraine was able to survive thanks to tens of thousands of feats of all those who defend it, as well as at the cost of tens of thousands of lives of our citizens killed by the Russian military..

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Earlier, the President of Ukraine said that Russian troops in the Donbas now have 20 times more equipment than the Ukrainians..