3 The Motherland Monument is a 102-meter-high statue commemorating Soviet victory in World War II. The steel figure looks east from the right bank of the Dnieper River in Kyiv. 4 The current steel ...

In the background, the Motherland statue with a wreath of poppies ... On her left arm, all along her bicep, lay her new tattoo of Mother Ukraine. Read more Subscribers only War in Ukraine ...

Standing a whopping 335ft and weighing some 560 tonnes, the 'Motherland' statue depicts an imposing woman - known colloquially as 'Baba', or 'Grandma' - holding a shield and sword aloft above her ...

A Kyiv monument traded a 42-year-old Soviet coat of arms for a modern trident Sunday, a swap that exemplifies the war-torn country’s fight against the 21st-century Russian army and the vestiges ...

Workers removed the Soviet Coat of Arms, the State Emblem of the Soviet Union, from the Motherland Monument in Kyiv, Ukraine on Tuesday, Aug. 1, 2023. The Soviet symbols will be replaced by the ...

The Motherland Monument — a 335-foot-tall stainless steel behemoth towering over Ukraine’s capital — was unveiled in 1981 and designed to assert Soviet invincibility. By Cassandra Vinograd ...