Flag of Ukraine

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Ukraine
bicolour
of blue and yellow
Sky-Blue Version
Small vexillological symbol or pictogram in black and white showing the different uses of the flag The sky-blue version that was official in 1991–1992; it is still in widespread use next to the current darker version.[1][2][3][4][5][6]
Naval ensign
UseNaval ensign Small vexillological symbol or pictogram in black and white showing the different uses of the flag Small vexillological symbol or pictogram in black and white showing the different uses of the flag Reverse side is mirror image of obverse side
Proportion2:3
Adopted20 June 2006
DesignWhite with a blue Saint George's cross that extends to the edges of the flag, with the national bicolour in the canton.

The national flag of Ukraine (Ukrainian: Державний прапор України, romanized: Derzhavnyi prapor Ukrainy) consists of equally sized horizontal bands of blue and yellow.

The blue and yellow bicolor flag was first seen during the 1848 Spring of Nations in Lemberg (Lviv), the capital of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria within the Austrian Empire. It was later adopted as a state flag by the short-lived Ukrainian People's Republic, the West Ukrainian People's Republic, and the Ukrainian State following the Russian Revolution.

In March 1939, it was also adopted by

Ukrainian parliament
.

Ukraine has celebrated the Day of the National Flag on 23 August since 2004.

Design

Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine made this standard mandatory for military funeral flags in 2021.)[8]

Scheme Strong azure Yellow
Pantone Pantone Coated 2935 C[7] Pantone Coated Yellow 012 C[7]
RAL 5019 Azure 1023 Gold (golden)
RGB color model 0, 87, 183[9] 255, 215, 0[10]
CMYK
 100, 63, 0, 2[9] 0, 2, 100, 0[10]
HEX
 #0056B9 #FFD800
Websafe
 #0066cc #ffcc00

There has been disagreement over the shade of blue used in the flag. Both dark blue (Ukrainian: синій) and sky blue (Ukrainian: блакитний) flags were historically used. When the flag was approved in 1992, the dark blue colour was chosen over sky blue for practical reasons: sky blue flags fade very quickly in the sun. Although the official standard was introduced in 2006, some manufacturers keep producing flags that do not match the standard.[11]

The flag is similar to that of the

Austrian state of Lower Austria, the German city of Chemnitz, historical Kingdom of Dalmatia (now Croatia) and the Hungarian city of Pécs, but all of those flags have a darker shade of blue. The flag is also somewhat similar to that of the Malaysian state of Perlis and the English county of Durham (without the cross), but has a reversed colour arrangement, lighter shades of blue and yellow, and a different aspect ratio
.

Protocol and use

Article 20 of the Constitution of Ukraine states that "the State Flag of Ukraine is a banner of two equally sized horizontal bands of blue and yellow colour." (Ukrainian: "Державний Прапор України — стяг із двох рівновеликих горизонтальних смуг синього і жовтого кольорів.").[12][13]

Hanging version of the Ukrainian flag

In addition to the normal horizontal format, many public buildings, such as the Verkhovna Rada, use vertical flags. Most town halls fly their town flag together with the national flag in this way; some town flags in Ukraine exist only in vertical form. The proportions of these vertical flags are not specified. When hung like a banner or draped, the blue band should be on the left. When flown from a vertical flagpole, the blue band must face the mast.

The flag did not appear on

Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists
were printed outside Ukraine during the Soviet period for patriotic purposes.

Decoration

Traditionally, the flag may be decorated with a

flag of the Ukrainian SSR. In addition, the Great Soviet Encyclopedia shows a flag decorated with a gold star. Ceremonial displays of the flag, such as those in parades or on indoor posts, often use a fringe to enhance the allure of the flag. No specific law governs the use of the fringe. Traditionally, the Army, Guard, Navy and Air Force use a fringed flag for parades, colour guards and indoor displays, while the Office of the President
and local authorities use a fringed flag on all occasions.

Places of continuous display

Ukrainian flags are customarily displayed continuously in certain locations.

Particular days for display

The flag is hoisted up to its full staff on the following days:

Display at half-staff

The flag is displayed at half-staff (or half-mast) as a sign of respect or mourning. When done nationwide, such a step is proclaimed by the president. Half-mast means flying a flag two-thirds of the way up a flagpole; the top of the flag must be at least a flag's height from the top of the flagpole. Black ribbons indicate mourning on banners that can not be lowered to half-mast.

Flag Day

The flag of Ukraine at Kyiv City Hall
Main article: Day of the National Flag (Ukraine)

The Day of the National Flag in Ukraine is celebrated on 23 August; it began in 2004.

Cabinet of Ministers
. When flags are flown at half-mast, vertical flags are not lowered. A black mourning ribbon is instead attached, either atop the mast if hung from a pole, or to each end of the flag's supporting cross-beams if flown like a banner.

History

Cossack flags depicted in Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks by Ilya Repin, 1880–1891
Typical agricultural landscape of Ukraine in the Kherson Oblast
A boy carrying a blue-yellow flag with the Ruthenian lion in the middle during the Ruthenian pilgrimage to the Holy Land, 1906

The roots of Ukrainian national symbols come from pre-Christian times when yellow and blue prevailed in traditional ceremonies, reflecting fire and water.[15] The most solid proof of yellow and blue colours can be traced back as far as the Battle of Grunwald in 1410, in which militia formations from the Ruthenian Voivodeship participated.

Blue-yellow, red-black, crimson-olive and especially raspberry colour banners were widely used by

Galicia. In fact, the coat of arms of Lviv
to this day remains a golden lion on a blue field.

Some put the starting point of the adoption of the current national flag of Ukraine to 1848 when, during the

Spring of the Nations on 22 April 1848, a blue-and-yellow banner was adopted by the Supreme Ruthenian Council[16] in Lemberg (Lviv), the capital of the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria
, and flew over the city's magistrate for the first time. Although this move did not have significant consequences, the newly formed Ukrainian divisions in the Austrian army used blue-and-yellow banners in their insignia.

During the

Russian Revolution of 1905, this flag was used by Ukrainians of the Dnieper Ukraine
.

Early independence: 1917–1921

UPR flag with the blue and yellow flag, Ukrainian War of Independence, 1918
1920 publication featuring Ukraine's flag and coat of arms
Ukrainian Galician Army troops with the blue and yellow flag, 1918

Both blue-yellow and yellow-blue flags were widely used during the

demonstration.[16] On the territory of Ukraine the national flag was flown for the first time in Kyiv on 29 March 1917 by soldiers.[16] On 1 April 1917, Kyiv saw a 100,000-strong demonstration where over 320 national flags were flown.[16] Afterwards, similar demonstrations with Ukrainian flags took place across the entire Russian Empire, even beyond ethnic Ukrainian lands.[16] Numerous famous Ukrainian politicians wrote about the 1 April demonstration, including Mykhailo Hrushevsky and Serhiy Yefremov, noting that there were blue-and-yellow flags, while Dmytro Doroshenko claimed that they were yellow and blue.[16] The blue-yellow flag was flown at the First Ukrainian Military Congress on 18 May 1917.[16]

The official flag established by the Ukrainian People's Republic in 1918 was blue-yellow. Instead, they refer to the decision on the Fleet Flag, which was to be light blue–yellow,[17] as an indication that the official flag was light blue–yellow.[18] Also adopted were several other service flags of the Ukrainian People's Republic.[19]

The official flag of

Symon Petlura.[citation needed] The flag of the West Ukrainian People's Republic was blue-yellow.[citation needed] The stateless Makhnovshchina, which existed during the Ukrainian War of Independence, used the black flag.[20]

Among Ukrainian immigrant organisations, there were proponents of both blue-yellow and yellow-blue flags. Eventually, an agreement was reached to use the blue-yellow flag until the issue could be resolved by an independent Ukraine.

Green Ukraine

Soviet Ukraine: 1922–1991

Main article:
Flag of the Ukrainian SSR
Ukrainian anthem
: "Ukraine has not perished, it has not been killed yet".

During Soviet rule, the Ukrainian flag was banned,

Russian SFSR
. The first flag was red with the gold Cyrillic sans-serif letters У.С.С.Р. (U.S.S.R., acronym for Ukrainskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Sovetskaya Respublika in the Russian language). In the 1930s, a gold border was added to the flag. In 1937, a new flag was adopted, with a small gold hammer and sickle added above the gold Cyrillic serif У.Р.С.Р. (U.R.S.R., for Ukrainska Radianska Sotsialistychna Respublika in the Ukrainian language).

Ukrainian SSR
  • 1919–1929
    Small vexillological symbol or pictogram in black and white showing the different uses of the flag 1919–1929
  • 1929–1937
    Small vexillological symbol or pictogram in black and white showing the different uses of the flag 1929–1937
  • 1937–1949
    Small vexillological symbol or pictogram in black and white showing the different uses of the flag 1937–1949
  • 1949–1991
    Small vexillological symbol or pictogram in black and white showing the different uses of the flag 1949–1991

Interbellum and Reichskommissariat Ukraine

The Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists is a Ukrainian political organisation which as a movement was originally created in 1929 in Western Ukraine (interwar Poland at the time). For a long time, the OUN did not officially have its own flag; however, during the Hungarian and Polish aggression against the

Republic of Carpathian Ukraine
in 1939, Carpathian Sich, a militarised wing of the OUN, adopted as its flag a design taken from the OUN's emblem – a golden nationalistic trident on a blue background. The flag was finalised and only officially adopted by the organisation in 1964 at the 5th Assembly of Ukrainian Nationalists.

The Ukrainian Insurgent Army was a Ukrainian nationalist paramilitary and later partisan army that engaged in a series of guerrilla conflicts during World War II against Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, and both underground and communist Poland. The group was the military wing of the Organisation of Ukrainian Nationalists — Bandera faction (the OUN-B), originally formed in Volyn in the spring and summer of 1943. Its official date of creation is 14 October 1942. The battle flag of the UPA was a 2:3 ratio red-and-black banner. The flag continues to be a symbol of the Ukrainian nationalist movement. The colours of the flag symbolise 'Ukrainian red blood spilled on Ukrainian black earth'.

In 1949, the flag of the Soviet Ukraine was changed once again.[24] The Soviet Union managed to obtain two additional seats in the United Nations by adding Ukraine and Byelorussia as member states.[24] The flag change came about because all the Soviet flags were the same.[24] The new Ukrainian flag consisted of red (top, 2/3) and azure (bottom, 1/3) stripes,[24] with the golden star, hammer and sickle in the top left corner. Communist party leaders such as Nikita Khrushchev and Lazar Kaganovich feared using words like 'light blue' and 'blue' in the official flag colours, as they were the terms used by the Ukrainian diaspora.[24]

During the Soviet period, multiple unsanctioned attempts to hoist the national blue-and-yellow flag were made. In 1958, an underground group was established in the village of Verbytsia, Khodoriv Raion; its members raised national flags and spread anti-Soviet pamphlets under cover of darkness.[25]

Return of the national flag

The Ukrainian national flag was raised outside Kyiv's City Hall for the first time on 24 July 1990.

Under the influence of

Supreme Soviet of the Lithuanian SSR re-established Lithuania's national flag and coat of arms as the state symbol. The parliaments of Latvia and Estonia
soon followed suit.

The events in the Baltic countries soon led to similar patterns in Ukraine. In particular, West Ukraine and the Ukrainian SSR's capital city of Kyiv were the scenes of near-constant political demonstrations, in which yellow-and-blue flags were waved by demonstrators.

The blue and yellow flag was provisionally adopted for official ceremonies in August 1991 following

2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, landmarks all over the world were lit up with the colours of the Ukrainian flag, while numerous cities raised the Ukrainian flag in solidarity.[30][31] Kastuś Kalinoŭski Regiment, an independent Belarusian
volunteer regiment, also adopted the colours of the Ukrainian flag in its insignia.

  • Flag of post-Soviet Ukraine used from 8 September 1991 to 28 January 1992 (blue-yellow, lighter shades)
    Small vexillological symbol or pictogram in black and white showing the different uses of the flag Flag of post-Soviet Ukraine used from 8 September 1991 to 28 January 1992 (blue-yellow, lighter shades)
  • Flag of post-Soviet Ukraine used from 8 September 1991 to 28 January 1992 (Soviet shades from previous SSR flag)
    Small vexillological symbol or pictogram in black and white showing the different uses of the flag Flag of post-Soviet Ukraine used from 8 September 1991 to 28 January 1992 (Soviet shades from previous SSR flag)
  • Flag of post-Soviet Ukraine used from 8 September 1991 to 28 January 1992 (blue-yellow, darker shades)
    Small vexillological symbol or pictogram in black and white showing the different uses of the flag Flag of post-Soviet Ukraine used from 8 September 1991 to 28 January 1992 (blue-yellow, darker shades)
  • Flag of Ukraine since 1992
    Small vexillological symbol or pictogram in black and white showing the different uses of the flag Flag of Ukraine since 1992
  • Flag of Ukraine with lighter shades is non-standard but has been frequently used[1][2][3][4][5][6]
    Small vexillological symbol or pictogram in black and white showing the different uses of the flag Flag of Ukraine with lighter shades is non-standard but has been frequently used[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Controversies and criticism

Origin

One claimed version is that, since one of the first known coloured depictions of the

Mazepa fought under yellow-blue banners, while their Swedish allies were under yellow ones. Some Cossacks and noblemen had coats of arms in yellow and blue.[32]

Yellow-blue versus blue-yellow

Ukrainians commonly refer to the flag as "yellow and light blue" (Ukrainian: жовто-блакитний, zhovto-blakytnyi)

Ukrainian National Republic) years (1917–1921) with yellow on the top and blue on the bottom. The yellow on the top allegedly represents golden domes (cupolas) of Christian churches and the blue the Dnieper
river.

The head of the Ukrainian Heraldry Society, Andriy Grechylo, points to the fact that the discussion about order of colours was taking place as far back as 1918.[24] Nonetheless, both governments of the Ukrainian People's Republic as well as the Ukrainian State defined that the upper half would be light-blue, while the lower would be yellow.[24] During 1918 it was taken into consideration that light blue would lose its shade under sun, therefore it was decided to make the colour darker.[24]

Already in the 1918 draft of the Constitution of the Ukrainian People's Republic, the order of colours was defined as blue and yellow.

Republic of Carpathian Ukraine on 15 March 1939.[24] The argument on the order of colours was taking place in the Ukrainian diaspora as well.[24] In 1949 it was decided that, until Ukraine defined a single state flag, the diaspora would use the blue-and-yellow banner.[24]

Attempts to revive Soviet flags

On 21 April 2011, the Verkhovna Rada passed a law allowing the Victory Banner to be raised on Victory Day.[34] The current Victory Banner was adopted in Russia in 2007. On 20 May 2011, the law was signed by the President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych.[35] On 17 June 2011, the Constitutional Court of Ukraine recognised the law as unconstitutional and proposed that the parliament implement required amendments to the Constitution of Ukraine.[36]

On 9 April 2015, the Ukrainian parliament passed legislation on

totalitarian regimes".[37] Since then, Soviet symbols, like the Victory Banner, have only been allowed in cemeteries.[38][39]

Soviet flags have been flown in territories

invaded the country in 2022.[40]

Flag of the head of state

Throughout the history of

flag of the president of Ukraine, was adopted in 1999. In 2022, the president of Ukraine used a variant where the left side of the blue upper-half contains the yellow Tryzub.[41]

Military flags

Navy and National Guard flags being flown during a military parade

Historical

Naval Ensign
  • 1787
    Small vexillological symbol or pictogram in black and white showing the different uses of the flag 1787
  • 1917
    Small vexillological symbol or pictogram in black and white showing the different uses of the flag 1917
  • 1918–1921
    Small vexillological symbol or pictogram in black and white showing the different uses of the flag 1918–1921
  • 1918
    Small vexillological symbol or pictogram in black and white showing the different uses of the flag 1918
  • 1992
    Small vexillological symbol or pictogram in black and white showing the different uses of the flag 1992
  • 1993
    Small vexillological symbol or pictogram in black and white showing the different uses of the flag 1993
  • 1994–1997
    Small vexillological symbol or pictogram in black and white showing the different uses of the flag 1994–1997
  • 1997–2006
    Small vexillological symbol or pictogram in black and white showing the different uses of the flag 1997–2006
Naval Jack
  • 1918–1921
    Small vexillological symbol or pictogram in black and white showing the different uses of the flag 1918–1921
  • 1992
    Small vexillological symbol or pictogram in black and white showing the different uses of the flag 1992
Soviet Union
  • Flag of the Soviet Union used to represent the Soviet Army (1955–1991)
    Small vexillological symbol or pictogram in black and white showing the different uses of the flag Flag of the Soviet Union used to represent the Soviet Army (1955–1991)
  • Flag of the Soviet Air Force (1924–1991)
    Soviet Air Force
    (1924–1991)
  • Flag of the Soviet Airborne Troops
    Soviet Airborne Troops
  • Flag of the Soviet Navy (1953–1991)
    Small vexillological symbol or pictogram in black and white showing the different uses of the flag Flag of the Soviet Navy (1953–1991)
  • From 1 October 1992 to 1995, this flag was used as the naval ensign of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation and Ukraine.
    Small vexillological symbol or pictogram in black and white showing the different uses of the flag From 1 October 1992 to 1995, this flag was used as the naval ensign of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation and Ukraine.

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