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  2. Mother Ukraine - Wikipedia

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    Mother Ukraine (Ukrainian: Україна-Мати, romanized: Ukraina-Maty [ʊkrɐˈjinɐ ˈmɑtɪ]) is a monumental Soviet-era statue in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. The sculpture is a part of the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War . [ 1 ]

  3. National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War

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    On 21 June 1996, the museum was accorded its current status of the National Museum by the special decree signed by Leonid Kuchma, the then-President of Ukraine. It is one of the largest museums in Ukraine (with over 300,000 exhibits) centered on the 62-metre tall Mother Ukraine statue, which has become one of the best-recognized landmarks of ...

  4. Ukraine replaces Soviet hammer and sickle with trident on ...

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

  5. List of monuments and memorials removed following the Russian ...

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    The invasion of Ukraine generated an increased desire to remove such items, with 20 removed by August 2022 with 40 more scheduled for removal. [7] Ukraine. Ukraine had removed over 2,000 monuments to Russian communism by 2020 in accordance with the de-communism law of 2015, including 1,320 statues or busts of Lenin.

  6. Hero City monument, Kyiv - Wikipedia

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    The Hero City monument (officially, the Obelisk in honor of the hero city of Kyiv, Ukrainian: Обеліск на честь міста-героя Києва) is a World War II memorial in Halytska Square in Kyiv, Ukraine. It is a 30 m-tall (98 ft) obelisk that was erected in 1982, during the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.

  7. Military dogs save ‘hundreds’ of lives in Ukraine, says handler

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  8. Vladimir Lenin monument, Kyiv - Wikipedia

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    The Vladimir Lenin monument in Kyiv was a statue dedicated to Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Soviet Union in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. The larger than life-size (3.45 meters [11.32 feet]) Lenin monument was built by Russian sculptor Sergey Merkurov from the same red Karelian stone as Lenin's Mausoleum .

  9. Meet the brave woman leading search dogs in war-torn Ukraine

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    Scripps News' Jason Bellini met Larysa Borysenko, leading a group of mostly women and their dogs who have found about 400 victims of Russian attacks. Meet the brave woman leading search dogs in ...