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.

The towering Mother Ukraine statue in Kyiv – one of the nation’s most recognisable landmarks – lost its hammer-and-sickle symbol on Sunday as officials replaced the Soviet-era emblem with ...

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 ...

The CCCP partially visible underneath the hammer and sickle is Cyrillic and stands for Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (known in English as the USSR). "Meanwhile two wrestlers and an Irish man ...

Some 85% of Ukrainians backed the removal of the hammer and sickle from the landmark, according to data from the country's Culture Ministry released last year. For many in Ukraine, the Soviet past ...