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.

A Russian soldier, photographed in Ukraine's Donetsk region in July 2023, wears the Soviet victory banner, a flag that was raised over Germany's Reichstag by Red Army troops in May 1945.

Most Soviet and communist symbols were outlawed in Ukraine by the country’s parliament in 2015, but this did not include World War II monuments such as the Mother Ukraine statue.

The movement away from Soviet symbols has accelerated since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, with assertions of national identity becoming an important show of unity as ...

An initiative group of Russians in Washington plans to hold a march of the Immortal Regiment with Soviet symbols, dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the end of the so-called Great Patriotic War ...

[1/5]Workers mount a Ukrainian national emblem to the shield of the 'Motherland' monument replacing the Soviet one, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, at a compound of the World War II museum in ...