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Workers install the Ukrainian coat of arms on the shield in the hand of the country’s tallest statue, the Motherland Monument, after the Soviet coat of arms was removed, in Kyiv, Ukraine.

Ukraine's coat of arms, the trident, has replaced the Soviet hammer and sickle on the Motherland monument's shield in Kyiv on Aug. 6. The 102-meter-high statue was built in 1981 when Ukraine was ...

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.

Workers install the Ukrainian coat of arms on the shield in the hand of the country's tallest stature, the Motherland Monument, after the Soviet coat of arms was removed, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday ...