UKRAINE FLAG

The state flag of Ukraine (Ukrainian: ; translit.: derzhavnyy prapor Ukrayiny; literally ‘state flag of Ukraine’) is a banner of two equally sized horizontal bands of blue and yellow colour, which symbolize the clear blue sky over yellow wheat field. (Constitution of Ukraine, Article 20)

As a national flag, the blue and yellow bicolour was officially used since the 1848 Spring of Nations when it was hoisted over the Lviv Rathaus. It is was officially adopted as a state flag for the first time in 1918 by the short-lived Ukrainian People's Republic. During the Soviet occupation, the flag was outlawed and before 1949 there was no official state flag until adoption of the red-blue flag of the Ukrainian SSR. People who were hoisting the blue-yellow flags in the Soviet Ukraine were prosecuted as criminals. The blue and yellow flag was provisionally adopted for official ceremonies in September 1991 following Ukrainian independence, before finally officially being restored in 1992.

Ukraine celebrates Flag Day each year on August 23 since 2004.^[1]