KYIV. His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr Conferred Church Awards on Emergency Situations Ministry Co-Workers

On May 14 the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church conferred church awards on the co-workers of the Ministry of the Emergency Situations Ministry of Ukraine at his residence in the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra.   
The orders of the Venerable Elias of Murom were conferred upon deputy Minister, major general of the Internal Service Mykhailo Bolotskykh, head of the Chief Administration of Emergency Situations Ministry of Ukraine in Donetsk region, lieutenant colonel of the Civil Protection Service Andriy Bondarenko, deputy head of the personnel department of the Chief Administration of  Emergency Situations Ministry of Ukraine in Donetsk region Evgen Kudinov, head of the training centre for the Immediate Rescue service of the Civil Protection, colonel of  the civil protection service  Ruslan Shevchuk.  

The jubilee order "1020years of the Baptism of the Kyiv Rus" was conferred upon Alexander ALimov, civil protection colonel  of the Emergency Situations Ministry of Ukraine in Zhytomyr region, and the Order of St. Anna was granted to Liudmyla Pavliuk, deputy head of the personnel department to the Chief Administration of the Emergency Situations Ministry of Ukraine in Zhytomyr region.     

Addressing those present, His Beatitude Metropolitan Volodymyr underscored importance of the work the Emergency Situations Ministry are devoted to, and assured them that the Church always prayed for them.

On his part, the head of the Emergency Situations Ministry Administration in Donetsk region thanked His Beatitude for his attention to their difficult service and handed the distinction of the Emergency Situations Ministry of Ukraine to the Archpastor.