The Ukrainian flag is easily recognizable by its two bands of yellow and blue. The yellow is on the lower part and the blue is on the upper part. But what is the meaning of the Ukrainian flag? This banner can be seen everywhere in the public space at a time when Russian leaders deny the existence of this great country, the cradle of the Slavs in Europe.
The meaning of the Ukrainian flag
The Ukrainian flag yellow and azure blue is in fact a minimalist representation of the Ukrainian landscape. The yellow symbolizes the immense fields of ripe wheat. It is indeed in Ukraine where the black lands are located. It is quite incredible but the Ukrainian fields are the most fertile in Europe. Because these are here that we find the famous black soil also called tchernoziom. And it is for this reason that Ukraine is considered to be “the granary of Europe”.
The azure blue represents the sky.
In other words, the Ukrainian flag could be compared to a contemporary art painting. Minimalism was mastered to perfection and could now embody freedom. A strange destiny for a flag that has long remained unknown to the general public and the media.
The Ukrainian flag represents a rural landscape in its simplest expression. So you will never again have excuses to position the Ukrainian flag correctly. Sometimes the arms of the Vareg dynasty of Ryuriks are printed in the upper left corner of the flag. This is an old version of the Ukrainian flag, which in its contemporary form consists of only two colors. The arms of Ryurikids of Kyiv (For your information, the Varegov dynasty ruled the country between the ninth and sixteenth centuries. The colors of the Ukrainian flag are also the colors of the arms of these Ukrainian Princes)
Yellow and blue and the arms of Ukrainian cities
Another point to mention, since the XV century yellow and blue were already the two colors of the arms of the city of Kyiv. A yellow bow was represented on a blue background. Nevertheless, some specialists do not hesitate to underline the resemblance of the Varigian arms with an eagle or a falcon. Like a bird of prey that would swoop down on its prey.
We will also find the blue and yellow for the coat of arms of the city of Lviv, one of the largest cities in Ukraine which is in the west of the country.
The coat of arms of the city of Lviv features a yellow lion on a blue background.
Then from the XVIth century, these colors will be used by the Cossack armies in their great enterprise of the liberation of the country. At the end of this war, the two-colored flag is definitively imposed in 1848 as the standard of the Ukrainian people.
