"Today, I would like to honour our border guards, the defenders of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine, who not only protect our state border but also fight alongside everyone else on different frontlines. "The Steel Border" Brigade - strong warriors, defending Kharkiv region, Kupiansk direction - I am very grateful to everyone.

I would also like to mention the achievements of soldiers Artem Tsapliuk and Ihor Kamenetskyi, junior sergeants Yurii Popish and Yaroslav Sholom, and lieutenant colonel Valerii Havryliuk. Thank you, guys, for your skilful actions! The soldiers of the Luhansk border guard detachment - the "Vengeance" brigade - are strong warriors, again on the front line, in the Lyman and Bakhmut directions. I am especially grateful to soldier Yevhen Serdiuk for his courage and to senior sergeant Kyrylo Chumachenko for his personal diligence.

Also in Mariinka direction, the border commandant's office of the Zhytomyr detachment: thank you to all of you, our soldiers, for your accuracy and destruction of Russian equipment. And I would like to mention junior sergeant Pavlo Shevchuk and sergeant Radion Blashko in particular - well done, guys! Each personal result in this war is the result of the whole of Ukraine. Because it is the personal results that make up the stability of our state, our common state capabilities and the success of Ukrainian defence," Volodymyr Zelenskyi said in his address on 28 January 2024, at the end of the 704th day of the war.