Its construction began in 1979, and it depicted a woman holding a sword and a shield emblazoned with the Soviet hammer and sickle symbol. Workers remove the Soviet-era emblem from the motherland ...

The towering Mother Ukraine statue in Kyiv — one of the nation's most recognizable landmarks — has lost its hammer-and-sickle as officials replaced the Soviet-era emblem with the country's ...

Soviet hammer and sickle is out, Ukrainian trident is in on towering Kyiv monument. ... which was previously known as the “Motherland monument” when Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union.

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Ukraine replaces Soviet hammer and sickle with trident on Kyiv monument. Since Russia’s war on Ukraine began, the country has accelerated moves to reclaim the nation’s identity from past ties.

Its construction began in 1979, and it depicted a woman holding a sword and a shield emblazoned with the Soviet hammer and sickle symbol. Workers remove the Soviet-era emblem from the motherland ...

Kyiv last week replaced the Soviet hammer and sickle symbol with a trident – the Ukrainian coat of arms – on the shield of the Motherland Monument, which dominates the capital’s skyline.

But now, instead of the hammer-and-sickle emblem, the shield features the Ukrainian tryzub, the trident that was adopted as the coat of arms of independent Ukraine on Feb. 19, 1992.

But now, instead of the hammer-and-sickle emblem, the shield features the Ukrainian tryzub, the trident that was adopted as the coat of arms of independent Ukraine on Feb. 19, 1992.

(CNN) — Ukraine has removed Soviet-era signage from a hilltop monument in Kyiv, amid a conflict that has seen the country fight to reassert its cultural identity in the face of Russian President ...

By Tim Lister, Olga Voitovych, Ivana Kottasová and Sana Noor Haq, CNN (CNN) — Ukraine has removed Soviet-era signage from a hilltop monument in Kyiv, amid a conflict that has seen the country ...