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The Order of the Heaven's Hundred Heroes (Ukrainian: Орден Героїв Небесної Сотні) is an order of Ukraine presented for civil courage, patriotism and the defense of the constitutional principles of democracy, human rights and freedom; humanitarian, social and charitable activities; selfless service to the Ukrainian people during the Euromaidan-protests; as well as any ...
Ukraine’s President Volodmyr Zelensky met the pope for a third time in October and thanked the Holy See earlier for its help to secure the release of Ukrainian prisoners.
The Russo-Ukrainian War has seen foreign volunteers participate on both sides of the conflict. Most foreign fighters joined the conflict during one of two waves. The first wave happened from 2014 to 2019 during the War in the Donbas and consisted of approximately 17,241 foreign fighters.
On the Russian side in the conflict with Ukraine, volunteers from Cuba, Venezuela, Brazil, Colombia, Greece, Serbia and Turkey have been fighting since 2022. The Khmelnytsky Battalion and Maxim Krivonos Battalion was created from Ukrainian residents; Several hundred Russian volunteers fought on the Serb side in the Yugoslav wars
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Most of these volunteers joined the newly created International Legion of Territorial Defense of Ukraine. [355] On June 9, the Donetsk People's Republic sentenced three foreign volunteers to death; two of them were British citizens and one was a Moroccan national. [356] [357] The prisoners were later released. [358]
Among the civilians tried for collaboration with Russia in the liberated territories of Ukraine is a local neighborhood volunteer sentenced to 5 years in prison for cooperating with the Russian authorities in providing humanitarian needs to local elderly people, a school principal jailed for accepting a Russian curriculum, a local electrician ...
In the week following the creation of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (OCU) on 15 December 2018 several parishes announced they would leave the UOC and join the new church. [37] On 27 May 2022, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church formally cut ties and declared independence from the Russian Orthodox Church. [38] [32]