Work has begun to remove a Soviet-era hammer and sickle emblem on Kyiv’s Motherland monument.
It will be replaced by a tryzub (a three-pronged emblem of Ukraine), with the works set to be completed by Ukraine’s Independence Day on 24 August.
The BBC’s James Waterhouse visited the scene.
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