Zelensky took part in the presentation of the initiative to evaluate the effectiveness drone units “e-Bali”.
Thus, the President presented the Order of the Gold of Zirka to the Heroes of Ukraine – the commander of the 427th separate brigade of unmanned systems “Rarog” Oleg Guyt and the commander of the 429th separate brigade of unmanned systems “Achilles” Yuriy Fedorenko.
Zelensky also awarded the Order of Merit, III degree, Bohdan Khmelnytsky, III degree, “For Courage,” II and III degrees, and the honor “Imenna vognepalna zbroya” to soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, SBU, NSU and State Border Guard Service.
As can be seen in the published OP photo, Zelensky presented the award to the ex-people's deputy, and now the commander of the battalion of unmanned control systems of the 63rd separate mechanized brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, Oleg Lyashko.
“Today, President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky presented me with the Order of Merit. He thanked the president for the award, which belongs not only to me, but to the entire personnel of the battalion, which I have the honor to lead. I wished the president success. Because his success is our success, this is the success of Ukraine,” he wrote on Facebook Lyashko.
He added that Defense Minister Mikhail Fedorov presented an award to the unmanned systems battalion of the 63rd Mechanized Infantry Brigade, which, based on the results of 2025, was among the top five in the defense forces in terms of the number of enemies destroyed.
