The team of the Crimean Tatar Resource Center congratulates all Ukrainians on the Day of the State Coat of Arms of Ukraine. It was on this day in 1992 that the Verkhovna Rada approved the trident as the Small Coat of Arms of Ukraine, defining it as the main element of the large State Coat of Arms.
It is worth noting that the trident has a thousand-year history and it was he who became the symbol of the struggle of Ukrainians for independence. Indeed, the fate of our country and its people has fallen incredibly many trials. And unfortunately, today, we meet this day in the conditions of a full-scale war, which the Russian Federation began on February 24, 2022.
Almost a year of a full-scale war has passed, 9 years of illegal occupation of the Ukrainian territories of the Russian Federation – Crimea and the Donbas – have already passed.
But, in spite of everything, we continue to hold the defense and resist. We are devotedly fighting for our freedom.
We are free people!
So it was and so it will be!
Glory to Ukraine!