The Greatness of Ukraine
Greatness in deeds - Glory in consequences
In the year of its 10th anniversary, the Order of Saint Panteleimon, the Award for Professionalism and Charity, is launching a special nomination — “THE GREATNESS OF UKRAINE”.
Five Spheres of Manifestation of Greatness
The ability of communities, institutions, and professional environments to keep life going where systems would otherwise fail is a phenomenon of collective responsibility that saves cities.
Collectives, medical networks, communities, and teams that ensured continuity of care and health support in the extreme conditions of war.
The team continues uninterrupted activities related to the procurement, processing, and delivery of high-quality and safe components of donor blood to places where seconds matter – to military hospitals and civilian hospitals in the Donetsk region.
It is the first line of medical care for injuries, heart attacks, strokes, emergencies, and mass casualties resulting from war.
The phenomenon of an unprecedented mobilization of Ukrainian medical scientists, who transformed a narrow professional community into a powerful logistical and diplomatic force of world class.
Municipal non-profit enterprise "Territorial Medical Association "Regional Center for Emergency Medical Care and Disaster Medicine" of the Zaporizhia Regional Council.
The facility's staff works around the clock, receiving and rescuing thousands of patients, performing complex surgeries, providing treatment, rehabilitation, and returning defenders to life.
It was their selfless work, professionalism and courage that made it possible to pass the heating seasons without stops and defrosting of heating networks.
The daily, often invisible to society, work of tens of thousands of specialists who, in the conditions of a full-scale war, ensured the continuous functioning of the pharmaceutical system of Ukraine.
The affirmation of a paradigm where human life is an unconditional value. It is about people who have made a moral choice in favor of another, without expecting a reward.
Individuals or rescue missions (doctors, volunteers, rescuers) whose actions have become an example of the highest humanity and self-sacrifice.
The medical staff of Odessa Maternity Hospital No. 5 demonstrated extraordinary heroism, evacuating all patients with infants to shelter in time and personally extinguishing a large-scale fire caused by a drone strike during an ongoing enemy attack.
During the 40 days of the blockade, hospital staff continuously saved the lives of people in critical conditions.
Medical resistance movement and preservation of the nation's living space.
Oleksandr Volobuev, the long-time head of the Kharkiv Garrison of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine, demonstrated exceptional sacrifice and courage, personally participating in over 200 rescue operations under fire.
The medical team that rescued the wounded Vitaliy during the emergency removal of the VOG-17 ammunition.
The formation of a unique Ukrainian approach to saving lives. These are new standards of evacuation and treatment that have become a global ethical imperative.
Authors of decisions, units or organizations that have implemented new, effective models of saving lives in combat conditions.
One of the most striking and effective initiatives that changed the very philosophy of survival on the battlefield, introducing technologies that were previously considered impossible in conditions of intense warfare.
Throughout the entire large-scale war, the center's doctors ensure the continuous functioning of the emergency medical care system in conditions of constant threats, emergencies, and critical loads.
This story covers the entire path of fighting for a person — from a critical combat wound, cardiac arrest and rescue in conditions close to field conditions, to long-term treatment, rehabilitation, prosthetics and return to a full life.
Mobile medical clinics operate as fully autonomous points of care in the most affected regions of Ukraine.
A holistic system of assistance to people who suffered during the war has been formed here: from emergency treatment to reconstructive surgery, prosthetics, physical, psychological and psychosocial rehabilitation, as well as the person's return to a full life.
Phenomena that did not allow society to lose its inner core. This is meaning-making as a condition for the survival of a nation.
Cultural, chaplaincy, and spiritual initiatives that strengthened the mental resilience and spiritual integrity of the people.
The service has implemented dozens of initiatives to support soldiers on the front lines, the wounded in hospitals, and the families of the dead, prisoners, and missing.
The artist created the original, original style of "Flower" - a deeply symbolic combination of a flower and a bird, which personifies the flowering of life, freedom, and genetic memory of the Tavria region.
The public organization is one of the key volunteer and humanitarian centers in the Kirovohrad region, which has been systematically supporting military personnel, veterans, IDPs, and residents of frontline areas since 2014.
The Kyiv Classic Orchestra has transformed classical and authentic Ukrainian music into a cross-border language that affirms Ukraine's subjectivity in the world.
"Lastivka" ensures the preservation of Ukrainian identity and the spiritual resilience of the diaspora in Denmark during the war.
Fixing the civilizational shift: Ukraine is no longer an object of aid, it is a leader dictating new humanitarian and ethical standards to the world.
Citizens, foundations, diplomatic missions, and forms of popular advocacy that have opened up resources for life to Ukraine and the world.
Ukrainian church figure, bishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC).
The goal of the Foundation is to continue the work of Bohdan Hawrylyshyn - to promote the development of Ukraine and its transformation into an effective European state.
World premiere of the opera "Creon" by Dmitry Bortnyansky.
Since 2014, and especially since the full-scale invasion in 2022, Hagia Sophia has transformed into one of the most powerful centers of Ukrainian solidarity in Europe.
The Ukrainian community, thanks to its indomitability, has built a large-scale institutional ecosystem that not only systematically supports the front and the displaced, but also acts as a geopolitical shield, holding this strategic island in the European civilizational space.
Ukraine has amazed the world with its resilience.
But this resilience is not a coincidence. It is the result of thousands of actions that have merged into a single phenomenon.
We must reveal to Ukraine and the world these phenomena that have become the face of the Greatness of our country.
This is a super-competitive nomination. It goes beyond the usual professional competitions. Its goal is not simply to select the best among equals, but to form a chronicle of phenomena and events that, in times of the most difficult trials, became the embodiment of the strength of our people.
To become a laureate on this list is to receive the highest status of public recognition, which records the contribution to the modern history of Ukraine. Since our Award was born in the medical field, we suggest looking at this greatness through the prism of preserving human life and health as the highest value of society.
