The statue, built by the Soviet Union and completed in 1981, depicts a robed woman holding high a shield in one hand and a sword in the other. The shield's prominent hammer and sickle were ...

“In Kiev, a trident was installed on the monument ‘Motherland,’” the ministry’s spokesperson, Maria Zakharova, said on Telegram, using the Russian spelling of Kyiv.

The Motherland Monument, a 335-foot statue of a woman holding a sword and shield, has towered over Kyiv since 1981 as a symbol of the U.S.S.R.’s triumphs during World War II. Workers dismantled ...

MOSCOW, August 6. /TASS/. Work to take down the Soviet emblem from the Motherland Monument statue to replace it with the national symbol of Ukraine once again demonstrates the nature of the Kiev ...

Construction of the steel-skinned statue began in 1979 and was completed in 1981. 6 The opening ceremony for the Motherland Monument on May 9, 1981. Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev can be seen ...

Soviet hammer and sickle emblems removed from the shield of the Motherland statue, stored in the Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War, Kyiv, August 12, 2023.

UKRAINE’s iconic Motherland monument war memorial is to have its hammer and sickle insignia erased in a graphic display of Kiev’s anti-communist fervour. The 330-foot statue personifies the former ...

Workers remove the Soviet Coat of Arms from the shield in the hand of the country’s tallest statue, the Motherland Monument, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023. Ukraine is accelerating e… ...

For the first time ever, the symbol of a foreign country - the Italian tricolour - was projected on the Motherland monument in Kiev. The Motherland statue represents the strength and courage of a ...

“In Kiev, a trident was installed on the monument ‘Motherland,’” the ministry’s spokesperson, Maria Zakharova, said on Telegram, using the Russian spelling of Kyiv.

Ukraine replaces Soviet-era hammer and sickle symbol with a trident on Kyiv statue By Tim Lister , Olga Voitovych , Ivana Kottasová and Sana Noor Haq , CNN 3 minute read ...