Editorial text prepared on 25.10.2026 for the calendar observance dated 01.10.2023. Retrospective publication; this is not a historical Facebook post.

We send our greetings on Defenders of Ukraine Day. Our gratitude for your service must be expressed every day through attention to military personnel’s needs, support for families and respect for what you have endured. Thank you for defending the country. We wish you good health, strength and dependable people by your side. We honour the memory of all the fallen.

Sources: Decree No. 806/2014; The wording ‘male and female defenders’ in Law No. 1643-IX of 14.07.2021; Moved to 1 October: Decree No. 455/2023.