Ukraine military officials revealed its new “Trident” laser air-defence weapon that can shoot down aircraft from more than a mile away and could be a game-changer in the conflict, Ukrainian ...

UKRAINE has unveiled a laser weapon dubbed ‘Trident’ that blasts aerial threats at the speed of light. The Star Wars-style weapon can shoot down drones and planes from over a mile away … ...

UKRAINE has unveiled a laser weapon dubbed ‘Trident’ that blasts aerial threats at the speed of light. The Star Wars-style weapon can shoot down drones and planes from over a mile away … ...

The Tryzub symbol has featured in Ukrainian lands since the Middle Ages, as the powerful state of Kyivan Rus flourished here. A trident symbol has evident in cultures from Europe to India since time ...

Ms Alla Sovivska, a Ukrainian language teacher who came to the exhibition, welcomed that the statue now featured a trident. “We need this symbol in our capital,” she said.

The trident symbol disappeared after the Mongol Empire conquered Kyivan Rus’ in the middle of the 13th century, but it returned in 20 th century with Ukraine’s efforts to regain independence.

We are not ‘post-’, but sovereign, independent and free Ukraine," the statement read. The removal of the communist symbol was considered long before Russia's invasion of the country.

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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.