Zelensky: Ukraine will provide housing for Heroes of Ukraine and their families

On the initiative of President Zelensky, all Ukrainian soldiers and officers who have been awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine since the beginning of the full-scale war who have been awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine since the beginning of the full-scale war, and family members of those who have been awarded the title will be provided with housing from the state. This was announced by the head of state during his evening address, UNN reports .

We are launching a new special initiative for all Heroes of Ukraine - there are 360 of them today since the beginning of the full-scale war. Every warrior and the family of a warrior who has been posthumously awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine will receive an apartment from the state. an apartment from the state. Not over the years, not sometime later, but now. Today I had the honor honor to hand over the first documents for an apartment to 21 Heroes of Ukraine. Soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard, the Security Service of Ukraine, the State and the State Border Guard Service. Nine of them are fallen heroes. And in the near future, the state will provide apartments for all the Heroes of Ukraine. All of them. Including those who fought before February 24, since 2014, the fighting guys. This is fair,

According to the president's website, the certificate was handed over by the wife of the commander of the parachute battalion, Major Vitaliy Bokhonko, who has distinguished himself in the battles in Donbas since the beginning of the full-scale Russian aggression. Donbas and died in July 2022 in the Donetsk region.

The certificate was also presented to the father of a soldier of the grenade launcher of an anti-tank platoon, Oleksandr Harbuz, who in March 2022 took the hit and allowed his unit to get out of enemy fire in the Kharkiv region, was captured and killed by the Russian military.

The certificate for the apartment was received by the mother of Lieutenant Dmytro "Da Vinci" Kotsiubaylo, who has been actively involved in the battles near Savur-Mohyla, Pisky, Bilokamyanka, Maryinka, Avdiivka, Zaitseve, Shchastya, and On March 7, 2023, he died in a battle near Bakhmut, suffering life-threatening injuries. life-threatening injuries.The certificate was also awarded to: the wife of Major Yuriy Nazaruk, who took part in the liberation of Bucha and Irpin from the Russian invaders and died in June 2022 in the battles for Sievierodonetsk, the wife of Captain Oleh Tarakhkal, who in April 2022 personally mined and blew up an important bridge in the Kharkiv region and fell in battle with the occupiers.The mother of the of a sniper of an anti-aircraft artillery platoon of a fire support company, soldier Oleksandr Matsievskyi, who was shot by the Russian occupiers after refusing to remove his chevron with the words "Glory to Ukraine."Volodymyr Zelenskyy also handed over certificates for apartments to the deputy commander of the Marine battalion, Major Serhiy Dudin, who has repeatedly proved himself in battles in the Kherson region, deputy commander of the 299th tactical aviation brigade, Lieutenant Colonel Rostyslav Lazarenko, who has been of the full-scale invasion, has flown more than 360 combat missions and personally destroyed more than 100 pieces of enemy equipment. The state also provided housing for Master Sergeant Borys Kharchuk, who during the fighting repeatedly led successful assault operations in eastern Ukraine, in particular in the Kharkiv region, the commander of an aviation squadron Lieutenant Colonel Yevhen Solovyov, who performed a highly complex combat flight on a helicopter to land troops in the blockaded Mariupol and evacuate wounded defenders, commander of the 1st Separate Tank Siverskaya Brigade Colonel Leonid Khoda, who led the defense operations on the outskirts of Chernihiv.The state also honored the following: the head of the sector of the SBU Center Dmytro Bashkintsev and the family of SBU Lieutenant Colonel Volodymyr Ukrainian, who was killed in action. Thanks to these servicemen, it was possible to prevent the breakthrough of of armored vehicles and the passage of enemy subversive reconnaissance groups into the territory of Ukraine. Volodymyr Ukrainets died in November 2022 while performing tasks in Zaporizhzhia region.The senior officer of the intelligence department of the Captain Vitaliy Lytvyn, a senior officer of the National Guard, whose unit carried out several special operations to repel Russian aggression in Luhansk region, National Guard Major Svyatoslav Palamar, whose courageous and heroic actions helped the Guardsmen to hold desperate defense of Mariupol.Also receiving certificates for housing were an anti-aircraft gunner of the National Guard of Ukraine, Roman Hlomba, who with incredible accuracy with the help of Igla MANPADS, destroyed three enemy Su-25 attack aircraft, the deputy commander Colonel Oleh Holinei, deputy commander of the NGU artillery, who planned and organized a system of firing positions for defensive and offensive actions in Luhansk region, ensured the withdrawal from the encirclement and the preservation of the lives of more than a thousand soldiers.

In the ranks of the State Border Guard Service, housing was provided to Lieutenant Eduard Atrashkevich, who has been involved in the defense of Ukraine since 2014, and Lieutenant Colonel Oleksandr Marchuk, whose unit selflessly performed the task of storming enemy positions in the Zaporizhzhia sector.

The family members of of Junior Sergeant Vadym Lysenkov, who commanded an assault squad and was directly involved in reconnaissance operations near Bakhmut, who was directly involved in reconnaissance operations near Bakhmut, obtained important data and died in November 2022, the squadron's aviation squadron commander Major Danylo Murashko, who flew 141 combat missions and who heroically died in the Donetsk region.