The state
flag of Ukraine is a banner
of two equally sized horizontal bands of blue and yellow (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 was officially adopted as a
state flag for the first time in 1918 by the short-lived West
Ukrainian People's Republic, and subsequently used by the Ukrainian
People's Republic.
When Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union, 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 hoisted 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.
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