Ukrainska Pravda’s second annual awards ceremony for the UP100 rating of 100 Ukrainian leaders took place in Kyiv on 20 November under the slogan Beyond the Impossible.
The ranking includes representatives from six categories: Defenders, Public Administration, Society, Business, Culture and Sport.
The general sponsor of the award is the law firm Ader Haber. The event was also supported by companies such as Nova Poshta, Kernel, Ukrnafta, Terwin, Hitbitpro, Nepoborna, Morshynska, and Color Concept.
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Ukrainska Pravda’s second annual awards ceremony for the UP100 rating took place in Kyiv on 20 November
The event, held at the Fairmont Hotel, began with a performance by the band schmalgauzen, after which Sevgil Musaieva, Editor-in-Chief of Ukrainska Pravda, took to the stage.
“At the end of 2024, it is becoming harder to find words that don’t sound too optimistic or too pessimistic, that don’t give false hope yet don’t destroy people’s belief in the best. Because no matter how much we talk about Ukrainian resilience and resistance, we have all been experiencing great sorrow throughout this time.
We meet today on the 1,001st day since the start of the full-scale invasion and on the eve of the Day of Dignity and Freedom. It has been 3,926 days since the start of Russia’s invasion and 1,000 days of the full-scale war,” said Sevgil from the stage.
Sevgil Musaieva, Editor-in-Chief of Ukrainska Pravda
“War is always a time for honest answers about ourselves, a time for the most important things, when everything matters, a dark time when we see the brightest people. Because, in the face of an existential threat, we find the strength to go on in ourselves – the people who are enduring this battle every day. Today, we will tell only 100 such stories, although in reality, there are more than 40 million. In each of the hundred, you will find something inspiring for yourself,” said Sevgil.
“This year’s theme for our award is Beyond the Impossible. In 2022, few of our Western partners believed that Ukraine would receive F16 jets. But Ukrainians persistently fought for this, and finally, in 2024, we saw these jets in the Ukrainian skies.
Pilots Andrii ‘Juice’ Pilshchykov and Oleksii ‘Moonfish’ Mes became famous worldwide when they gave dozens of interviews to top American media, asking for F16s for Ukraine. They did everything possible to make this a reality for us….
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