This is Not the Flag of Ukraine.*

The flag of Ukraine is a simple one; until you put a trident on there. Then, the whole thing gets a lot more complicated.

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[robertjarman]

Congratulations to Niederösterreich for having a flag easy to confuse with Ukraine. And then Upper Austria looks like Poland and Steiermark looks like Saxony

[MaryannT]

Ukrainian coat of arms is simple and elegant. Also, putting it on the flag makes the said flag 100% Ukrainian and not mixed with other blue-and-yellow ones that exist around the world.

[hydra]

You're missing a key factor. The trident is also used in the emblem of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. That's probably the biggest reason it's appearing more during war time.

[awdey]

As a Ukrainian, I’m fine with the fact that Belarus is connected to Rus' (Kyivan Rus'), but not Russia. Renaming a country after something ancient doesn’t make it historically related to it. For example, Rome is linked to Italy, not Romania (no offense to Romanians, it’s just an example).

Belarus not only lies within the territory of Ancient Rus', just like Ukraine, but also shares many traditions with us. Our languages are so similar that Belarusians and Ukrainians can understand each other without a translator.

You are misleading your viewers with this narrative.

Fun fact: Russia’s coat of arms originates from the Golden Horde. If you didn’t know, when the Soviet Union emerged, it tried to revive the past in the same way that Russia does now—through war. Interestingly, the Bolsheviks initially emphasized Armenia’s history over Ukraine’s, as it had more ancient roots.

[catmacopter]

"tryzub" directly translates to "three teeth", just like "tri-dent"

[cubeofdestiny]

idk, in Poland we do similar thing with putting a coat of arms on a flag, officially it's used for embassies, airports, naval vessels civilian and military, but day to day you can see it on like football games and stuff, I think it's more likelly that people just like to have different flags and symbols, than this stuff about connection to an ancient empire

[underarmbowlingincidentof]

I always thought it was just their coat of arms tbh.
Probably it just looks cool and is easily identified and thats why its used. I mean in Ukraine itself it was plastered on a lot of buildings like operas even before the war and before the invasion in the 2010s.
I mean technically Germanys Eagle on its coat of arms also comes from the Holy Roman Empire and they took it from the Roman Empire so technically the Eagle Germany has is also the one used by like a handful other nations.... but who tf cares about that right? lol.

[TinfarRay]

The video is very truthful, and it is clear that this time the author approached the topic with some respect, while at the same time staying on topic and being interested in the reasons and affiliation of the Ukrainian flag. Honestly, not even all Ukrainians are aware of this feature of our flag, and the fact that someone outside of Ukraine is interested in this topic is inspiring.

However, I have some bad news about the affiliation of russia and Belarus to Kyivan Rus.

Briefly. Were the territories of present-day russia and Belarus part of Kyivan Rus? Yes. They were.
Were there Russians as a separate Slavic people? No.
Were there Belarusians as a separate Slavic people? Yes. Other name, but yes.
Why yes with Belarus but not with russia? Because Belarusians really descended from the Slavs of that time, unlike russians, who are Ugro-Finns. Calling russians Slavs is, according to some historians, a false statement.

Next, the names. The first mention of Ukraine (again, on the territory of Kyivan Rus, which had already been destroyed at that time) dates back to 1425. At that time, russia was called Muscovy.
Only in the future, under Peter First, would they change the name of the state to emphasize their affiliation with a non-existent empire. Stealing history, that's what it is.

What an appropriate question. Can russia take the history of Kyivan Rus and at the same time claim the merits of the USSR? Of course not. The USSR is a creation of russia, while Kyivan Rus is a creation of the Slavic peoples, including Ukrainians. Kyivan Rus was never really related to russia, and never will be.

[happyelephant]

My hypothesis as Ukrainian: it just looks sort of cool, and nobody really care what to use. Like, I never thought about "versions" of flag. They are pretty haphazard. Nobody really intends to really emphasize or convey any meaning using these combinations of flag and trident.

There is a more epic story of trident, though. The trident officially only a minore part of a bigger coat of arms, not the coat of arms itself. Why you haven't seen another coat of arms? It doesn't exist (almost). It was to be designed and approved since 1996 but almost other more important things to do, so we still live without it. In 2021 there was an official competition of proposed designs, and one even won ( just to be totally mocked by like everyone), but I have no idea what happened with the process and if it moves somewhere:)

[AverytheCubanAmerican]

Something else to note regarding the history of the Ukrainian flag: The color shades changed. The Ukrainian People's Republic flag had a sky-blue and light-yellow shade! When the Soviet Union collapsed, it retained these shades. This changed in 1992 to a slightly darker blue and yellow, before making the shades even darker in 2006 and the flag has stayed the same since then. Blue-yellow banners were one of the banners used by Cossacks between the 16th and 18th centuries. Yellow and blue were the colors common on coats of arms in Galicia, what's now southeastern Poland and northwestern Ukraine.

Here's the background of its anthem: It's a slightly modified version of the first verse and chorus of "Shche ne vmerla Ukraina" (or Ukraine has not yet perished), written in 1862 by prominent ethnographer Pavlo Chubynskyi. In 1863, Mykhailo Verbytskyi, a Ukrainian composer and Greek Catholic priest, composed music to accompany Chubynskyi's lyrics. Chubynskyi wrote the lyrics spontaneously after listening to Serbian students singing Svetozar Miletić's "Srpska pesma" (Serbian song) during a gathering of Serbian and Ukrainian students in a Kyiv apartment. What is now the Polish anthem influenced his lyrics as well, and the January Uprising happened a few months after Chubynskyi wrote it.

[familygash]

I mean you can pretty much find any country flag with their coat of arms/emblem slapped on it, like with The Russian, Polish and German flags, just to name a few.

[whitecrow_grayman]

The Trident is the official national symbol of Ukraine. State coat of arms.

He's on our money.

So there are no attempts to be tied to the historical past. These are both state symbols of the country.

On the screen, the flag simply looked lonely and empty.
That's why they added the trident.

The second time he was probably somewhere in the headquarters of one of the military branches. It was a military flag. Many units take the flag of Ukraine as a basis and add various changes.

Sticking flags into captured positions is now more symbolic than practical. But all military units have their own flags, a tribute to military traditions.

[mykytafil]

To be more confusing, tryzub is only a "small" coat of arms. Constitution presumes the existence of the "big" one, which .... still doesn't exist.

[Tiipori]

So, I'm Ukrainian and we have a few symbols of our country that we're taught in school. The first one is flag, second is "Herb" and hymn. While the situation with the flag and hymn are pretty intuitive, you could say that herb's story is a bit more complicated, but that would be wrong. Just as polish silver eagle and many other examples, that's just a country's emblem and it's attachment to a flag isn't really some political things, just Ukraine's flag and emblem together. Thanks for the interest in our country.

[SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

Since you mentioned Belarus briefly, here's the history behind their interesting flag: The current design was introduced in 2012 by the State Committee for Standardisation of the Republic of Belarus, and is adapted from a design approved in a May 1995 referendum. It is a modification of the 1951 flag used while the country was a republic of the Soviet Union. Changes made to the Soviet-era flag were the removal of communist symbols as well as the reversal of the colors in the ornament pattern. In 2012, the pattern was changed to be thicker. The decorative pattern was originally designed in 1917 by Matrona Markevich. The pattern, derived from local plants and flowers, is a traditional type commonly used in Belarus.

These patterns are sometimes used in woven garments, most importantly in the traditional ruchnik, a woven cloth used for ceremonial events like religious services, funerals, and other more minor social functions, such as a host offering guests bread and salt served on a ručnik. The husband of Matrona Markevich was arrested for anti-Soviet propaganda and executed during Soviet repression in Belarus in 1937, after which the family was dekulakised. The original ruchnik has not survived and was either confiscated by the NKVD in 1937 or destroyed during WWII.

[FlickazSwag]

I've been waiting for a video on my country from you for so long :D

[misterparrot]

Nice video! From what i found out, russian historians like Rybakov and Nasonov and many others, after analyzing mentions of "Rus" / "Rus Land" in the chronicles, were able to say what those lands were, the regions of: Kyiv / Pereyaslav / Chernihiv (after Mongol Invasion it was also on the West, which I understand why, since the last Kniaz of Kyiv Danylo founded a Kingdom in Lviv)
Which means both Belarus (Polotsk Principality) and russia (Suzdal Principality) are not Rus / Rus Land, they were under it, like France / England was under the Romans, but not the core heart of it.

[Jff_Kng]

Dude I've just get engaged on your channel 40 min ago and I've been watching your videos only for like 40 Mim and you upload right on my marathon fucking crazy

[Artur_M.]

Speaking of Belarus, you could make a video explaining why Belarusian opposition and diaspora uses different flag than the regime. Together with the coat of arms called Pahonia, which is a variant of the same coat of arms that Lithuania uses (but Lithuanians call it Vytis).