Ura87

4 hours ago, Rocket said:

Ura87,

Do you have a picture of the reverse side of this medal?

On a side note...I want to thank you for sharing your wealth of knowledge regarding modern Ukrainian military medals and awards. I have learned so much from this thread and look forward to seeing more posts!

John

This photo from first award ceremony.

Azov regiment badge "For help in the defense of the country" (За допомогу в обороні країни). As far as I know, the badge is not awarded now.

1 hour ago, Zulu_00 said:

 

Would that be for donors and volunteers etc?

I think yes.

The badge of the 24th battalion (now it's 24th Separate Assault Battalion "Aidar") "For the support of the Aydar battalion" (За підтримку Батальйону Айдар) established in 2015.

9 minutes ago, Ura87 said:

I think yes.

The badge of the 24th battalion (now it's 24th Separate Assault Battalion "Aidar") "For the support of the Aydar battalion" (За підтримку Батальйону Айдар) established in 2015.

Now the badge looks like this "Volunteer Help" (Волонтерська Допомога)

The badge of the 30th Separate Mechanized Brigade "We are strong together" (Ми сильні разом) volunteers who help the brigade.

Medal of the village council "For the defense of Kotsiubinsky" (За оборону Коцюбинського)

Military-Civil Administration of the city of Avdiivka, Donetsk region "For the defense of the Avdiivka" (За оборону Авдіївки). The fighting for Avdiivka has been going on since 2014 until today.

The medal of the 110th Separate Mechanized Brigade "For the defense of the Avdiivka".

Military-Civil Administration of the city of Toretsk, Donetsk region "For the defense of the city of Toretsk" (За оборону міста Торецьк).

14 hours ago, Zulu_00 said:

 

Is that just for members of the International Legion? Or other combatant/non-combatant foreign volunteers?

Looks like it's for combatants.

On 08/01/2023 at 19:23, Ura87 said:

I heard that some volunteers are getting the Order for Courage 3rd class, maybe anybody received The Medal For Military Service to Ukraine. There is project of the public organization's award for volunteers "For our freedom and yours" (За нашу і вашу свободу): https://www.ukrinform.ua/rubric-ato/3638528-prezentuvali-nagorodu-dla-inozemciv-aki-zahisaut-ukrainu.html

A new photo of the award.

18 hours ago, Rocket said:

I too know of someone who should qualify for this medal. I'd be curious to see if it's considered a "service medal" or "campaign medal" like you see in most western militaries where the participant is awarded the medal simply by being in the theater of operations. Or is it something that a military commander has to individually recommend for a person to be eligible.

 

Thanks for all of your help "Ura87" on these Ukrainian medals. Please keep us posted on any additional info regarding this particular medal.

This medal is something like Britain Defence Medal for WWII. If you about civilians I would say your volunteer organization can apply to the Ukrainian embassy or it can be done in Ukraine by some official person or organization with which you cooperate.

2 hours ago, Zulu_00 said:

 

I have a few friends who definitely qualify this. Do you know how someone can be nominated for this?

Sorry, but I don't know.

The production of medals "For the Defense of Ukraine" began. Medals have not yet been awarded.

There is a new order of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces: https://www.mil.gov.ua/ministry/simvolika-ta-nagorodi/pochesni-ta-pamyatni-nagrudni-znaki-nachalnika-generalnogo-shtabu-golovnokomanduvacha-zsu.html

This is a public award "People's Hero of Ukraine" (Народний Герой України): https://uaheroes.com/

This is posthumous medal for WWI. I don't know if the early medals awarded during WWI had markings, but I think they might have.

This is early medal with two marks. I don't know what it mean. 

53 minutes ago, Carlo said:

Wow! Many thanks for the info! To the eye and to the touch you can immediately see that it is a very old ribbon, but honestly I did not think so old!

Thanks a lot!!

 

Carlo

Nice one. Sometimes early medals have marks on the rim, this happened when the medal was given as a duplicate. (Images from the Internet)

54 minutes ago, graham said:

Nice collection. Congratulations. Love the VC!!!!!!!!!

Thanks. The VC it's copy.

2 minutes ago, Zulu_00 said:

This seems to be an unofficial medal? But I'm not really sure. The "Unbreakable" Medal? Cool design though. 

 

https://prom.ua/ua/p1687854308-medal-nezlamnim-rosijsko.html

 

It was a project for Medal for the Defence of Ukraine. Later author used the design for own public's organisation.

8. USA. The Purple Heart is modern not for WWI.

9. Russia imperia.

10. Switzerland. A total of 16 countries.

Thank you for your rating. There are rest of my collection...  1. Germany

2. Romania and Bulgaria.

3. Czechoslovakia, Greece, Serbia and Portugal. The Greek Medal of Military Merit is from 70th not for WWI. 

4. Italy and Japan.

5. France

6. Belgium.

7. Great Britain.

In order not to create a new topic with the same name, if you don't mind, I'll show my collection. I collect awards from all the countries that fought during the First World War, so my collection is not too big, although Austria-Hungary is one of my favorite countries.

I found two documents for the "Sector C" award "For the defense of Debaltsevo" it seems that not only the commander of the sector awards them. The stamps on the documents indicate that they are also awarded by public organizations.

I forgot I saw this ribbon for Jubilee medal and there is patent sign.

I saw a ribbon with patent sign on our auction.

Award of the Mykolaiv Regional Council - "Cross of Saint Nicholas" (Хрест Святого Миколая). The "Cross of St. Nicholas" was established for the purpose of honoring military personnel, law enforcement officers, civil defense forces personnel, volunteers, and other persons for personal courage, dedication and heroism, shown during the performance of tasks during an anti-terrorist operation, civic duty in conditions of associated with a risk to life, for special merits in the protection of the population and territories from emergency situations, prevention of these situations, liquidation of their consequences, for outstanding merits in the military, state, public and other spheres of public activity of the region or state: https://www.mk-oblrada.gov.ua/vidznaky