Flag of Ukraine
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The national flag of Ukraine consists of equally sized horizontal bands of blue and yellow.
Leonid Kadenyuk at NASA, note different shades of blue on the patch and on the flag behind (1997)
The flag of Ukraine at Kyiv City Hall
Cossack flags depicted in Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks by Ilya Repin, 1880–1891
The first flag of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (UkSSR) was adopted on 10 March 1919 to serve as the symbol of state of the Ukrainian SSR. Details of the official flag changed periodically before the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, but all had as their basis the communist red flag. According to the decree of the Presidium of Supreme Soviet of Ukrainian SSR on 21 November 1949, the blue in the bottom "symbolises the mightiness and beauty of the people, and the blue banner of Bohdan Khmelnytsky".
