Hero of Ukraine is the highest national decoration that can be conferred upon an individual citizen by the President of Ukraine.
Image: Ukrainian Goldenstar
Image: Hero of Ukraine Order of the Gold Star (cropped)
Georgiy Gongadze, journalist, founder of a popular Internet newspaper Ukrayinska Pravda, who was kidnapped and murdered in 2000
Vitali Klitschko
The President of Ukraine is the head of state of Ukraine. The president represents the nation in international relations, administers the foreign political activity of the state, conducts negotiations and concludes international treaties. The president is directly elected by the citizens of Ukraine for a five-year term of office, limited to two terms consecutively.
President of Ukraine
President of the Central Council Mykhailo Hrushevskyi (1917–18)
Hetman Pavlo Skoropadskyi (1918)
President of the Directorate Volodymyr Vynnychenko (1918–19)