On July 28 during a meeting with Catholicos-Patriarch of Georgia Ilia II, the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP), Metropolitan Volodymyr conferred on him the Order of the Holy and Equal-to-the-Apostles Prince Volodymyr of the first degree.
The ceremony took place at the residence of the Primate of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church-Moscow Patriarchate (UOC-MP) at the Kyiv Caves Monastery. So reported the web site of UOC-MP