Ukraine has replaced the Soviet emblem on one of Kyiv’s most prominent monuments with its own coat of arms, part of a broader push since the full-scale invasion to stamp out tributes to Russian ...

The documentation process to dismantle the Soviet hammer and sickle on the statue in Kyiv is already underway, Culture Minister Oleksandr Tkachenko said on national television on May 6.

By AFP Published August 6, 2023 The operation to put the trident in place of the Soviet emblem on the 62-metre-tall steel figure of a woman, known as the Fatherland Mother, began last month ...

The 62-metre (203-foot) statue was dismantled this summer, over a year into Moscow’s devastating offensive, to replace the Soviet emblem with the trident — the Ukrainian coat of arms.