The Russian Foreign Ministry insisted on Sunday that “mother cannot be renamed.” “In Kiev, a trident was installed on the monument ‘Motherland,’” the ministry’s spokesperson, Maria ...

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 ...

MOSCOW, August 6. /TASS/. Work to take down the Soviet emblem from the Motherland Monument statue to replace it with the national symbol of Ukraine once again demonstrates the nature of the Kiev ...

The Motherland Monument, a 335-foot statue of a woman holding a sword and shield, has towered over Kyiv since 1981 as a symbol of the U.S.S.R.’s triumphs during World War II. Workers dismantled ...

Workers remove the Soviet Coat of Arms from the shield in the hand of the country’s tallest statue, the Motherland Monument, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023. Ukraine is accelerating e… ...

Construction of the steel-skinned statue began in 1979 and was completed in 1981. 6 The opening ceremony for the Motherland Monument on May 9, 1981. Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev can be seen ...

UKRAINE’s iconic Motherland monument war memorial is to have its hammer and sickle insignia erased in a graphic display of Kiev’s anti-communist fervour. The 330-foot statue personifies the former ...

For the first time ever, the symbol of a foreign country - the Italian tricolour - was projected on the Motherland monument in Kiev. The Motherland statue represents the strength and courage of a ...

“They will not be able to erase the feat of our people from memory,” the Belarusian leader emphasized.

The Russian Foreign Ministry insisted on Sunday that “mother cannot be renamed.” “In Kiev, a trident was installed on the monument ‘Motherland,’” the ministry’s spokesperson, Maria ...