National colours of Ukraine

The roots of Ukrainian national colours come from before Christian times when yellow and blue prevailed in traditional ceremonies,[1] reflecting fire and water.

The most solid proof of yellow and blue colours could be traced as far as the Battle of Grunwald at which militia formations from various lands of the Polish-Lithuanian Union participated.

There is a theory that the colors have arrived in the area of present-day Ukraine, together with the governor Prinz Władysław II Opolczyk, who established them to the Principality of Ruthenia on model of his native Upper Silesia.

The colors in the Ukrainian flag are often interpreted to represent golden fields of grain under a clear blue sky, appropriate for a country known as the "bread basket" of its area.

Ukraine's state coat of arms feature the same colours found on the Ukrainian flag; a blue shield with gold trident, called the tryzub, which means 'trident' (more literally 'three teeth').