Parubiy was shot dead on the street in Lviv on August 30. The petition about the assignment of the highest rank in the country gained more than 25 thousand votes.
The same title received:
Gennady Afanasyev (Decree No. 741/2025) – soldier, activist of the Crimean Resistance, political prisoner, who died at the front in 2022;
Stepan Chubenko (Decree No. 738/2025) – Ukrainian schoolboy, who was tortured and shot in 2014 by pro -Russian militants in the occupied part of the Donetsk region;
Vladimir Vakulenko (Decree No. 740/2025) – Ukrainian poet and children's writer, whom the Russians killed in May 2022 during the occupation of raisins in the Kharkov region.
Zelensky also awarded the title of Hero of Ukraine 11 to Ukrainian military, including Deputy Head of the Security Service, Alexander Ost as. Four defenders received him posthumously, the president pointed out.
