The mayor of Kyiv visited the newlyweds, who got married on the front lines, dressed in military uniforms and serenaded soldiers on the front lines in Ukraine.
A video posted online shows a couple in love, Lesya and Valery, who are in territorial defense, celebrating their wedding next to Kyiv how Vitali Klitschko blesses the couple and kisses the bride for good luck.
On Twitter, Klitschko shared a clip from the ceremony, in which the couple were surrounded by applause, cameras and co-workers, saying “life goes on.”
He wrote: “Today I greeted the fighters of one of the battalions of the capital’s defense of the capital Lesya and Valeria. They lived in a civil marriage for a long time, and now they decided to get married.
“The ceremony took place near one of the roadblocks. Life is going! And we will protect the life of Kyiv, the people of Kiev, our state!”
The video shows a smiling couple holding flowers, while fellow soldiers surrounding them shout: “Glory to Ukraine!” in a spiritual moment captured yesterday.
Lesya was seen holding a bouquet of flowers, while she and Valery were squeezing champagne glasses.
Mayor of Kyiv Vitali Klitschko congratulated the military personnel of the territorial defense of Ukraine Valery and Lesya on their wedding
A grinning Lesya held on to bouquets of flowers as Vitali Klitschko congratulated her and Valery on their wedding at a checkpoint near Kiev.
Vitali Klitschko congratulated and kissed the newlyweds for good luck, who yesterday tied the knot in military uniform.
Both newlyweds were applauded, and the bride seemed to change her helmet for a white veil, smiling and holding Valery’s hand.
A group of fellow soldiers also joined the couple in the choir, and one man played the bandura, a Ukrainian folk musical instrument similar to the lute.
The footage was published by Paul Ronzheimer, a correspondent for the German news agency BILD-Zeitung.
It has since received around 22,000 views and hundreds of likes, with most of the comments wishing them happiness and prosperity.
One of the soldiers also wears an Orthodox cross, which is often seen at weddings in a country where the majority of the population follows this religion.
Vitali Klitschko greeted Lesya after her wedding to Valery (not pictured) yesterday, when the bride happily held flowers.
Vitali Klitschko visited a checkpoint near Kiev to express his wishes and blessings to the two newlyweds in the territorial defense
Vitali Klitschko yesterday took a selfie with the fighters of the territorial defense in front of his brother Vladimir (right) at a checkpoint near Kiev
Valery and Lesya kissed during yesterday’s wedding near a checkpoint on the outskirts of Kyiv in what appears to have been an Orthodox ceremony.
The newlyweds were applauded, and the bride, it seems, changed her helmet to a white veil, smiled and took Valery by the hand.
Lesya held a bouquet of flowers, and Valery a champagne glass, when the newlyweds were applauded at the wedding.
Volodymyr Zelenskiy vowed that “God will not forgive” and Ukraine “will not forget” the massacre of civilians by the Russians, saying that “judgment day” is coming for them as cities were bombed again this morning as Vladimir Putin’s invasion began. its twelfth day.
Zelensky, in a nightly address to his compatriots on the Orthodox holiday of Forgiveness Sunday, recalled how a family of four was among eight civilians killed by Russian mortars while trying to escape from the city of Irpen — near Kiev — earlier in the day. “We will not forgive. We won’t forget,” he told listeners.
“We cannot forgive hundreds and hundreds of victims. Not thousands and thousands of victims,” he added. “God will not forgive. Not today. Not tomorrow. Never.’
He spoke as Russia said it was opening new “humanitarian corridors” from besieged cities, including Mariupol, Kharkiv, Sumy and Kyiv, starting at 7am UK time today to allow civilians to evacuate – though few expect Putin’s people will observe a temporary truce after two similar corridors went down over the weekend.
Red Cross volunteers working in heavily besieged Mariupol said that on Sunday their workers tried to use one of the “corridors” from Mariupol, only to find it had been booby-trapped.
“Instead of humanitarian corridors, only bloody corridors can be made,” Zelensky said, while Interior Ministry adviser Anton Gerashchenko added: “There can be no green corridors, because only the sick brain of Russians decides when and whom to shoot.” .’
Shortly after their conversation, plumes of smoke rose over Nikolayev on Ukraine’s Black Sea coast as Russian troops resumed shelling.
The exact number of civilian casualties is not known, although Ukraine estimates it to be in the thousands, as residential areas of major cities are indiscriminately bombarded with thermobaric and cluster munitions, and there is evidence that “combat squads” were targeting civilian vehicles . The UN estimates that 1.5 million people have fled the fighting.
The newlyweds were filmed on video, where they got married on the front line, in military uniform and surrounded by fellow soldiers.
Smirking newlyweds celebrated their wedding on the front line yesterday, surrounded by colleagues at a post near Kiev
A video posted online showed a loving couple named Lesya and Valery, who are in territorial defense, celebrating their wedding near Kiev, Ukraine.
Servicemen of the territorial defense of Ukraine attended a wedding ceremony near a checkpoint on the outskirts of Kyiv, photo yesterday
The servicemen, pictured yesterday, honored the newlyweds with flowers in their hands at the wedding ceremony on the front line.
One of the soldiers also apparently wore an Orthodox cross, which is often seen at weddings in the country, at a wedding yesterday.
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