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World heavyweight boxing champion Oleksandr Usyk, together with Sir Richard Branson, unveiled the "Kestrel" mosaic in Trafalgar Square, London on Monday. This marks Usyk's first public event during ...
Oleksandr Usyk warned that Russia is attempting to ‘erase our existence’ as the Ukrainian superstar helped to unveil a symbol ...
As Russia prepared to invade Ukraine, we took a look at the history of the complex relationship between the nations.
The Motherland Monument — a 335-foot-tall stainless steel behemoth towering over Ukraine’s capital — was unveiled in 1981 and designed to assert Soviet invincibility.
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 Vladimir ...
The huge Mother Ukraine statue in Kyiv, one of the nation’s most recognizable landmarks, has lost its Soviet hammer and sickle, replaced by a trident.
Soviet-designed district heating systems could give Ukrainian cities a leg up in the energy transition. But in war, they're a vulnerability.
Up to 2014, when Russia’s war first began, Ukraine’s army was systematically cut back and neglected, molded by institutions that had done little to alter its Soviet-era fabric.
KYIV, Ukraine >> Ukraine has replaced the Soviet emblem that once adorned one of the nation’s most recognizable landmarks with the country’s coat of arms.
Today marks a year since Russian President Vladimir Putin embarked on his mad quest to capture Ukraine and conjure into existence some sort of mutant Soviet-Christian-Slavic empire in Europe.
The exhbition expands upon Nikiforov's 2014 Ukrainian Soviet Mosaic project during which he travelled across Ukraine photographing and documenting the disappearing monumental artworks.
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.