Married in a Ukrainian bomb shelter
Global News
Forced to take shelter during their wartime wedding, a Ukrainian couple exchanged vows in an underground bunker.
Yulia and Konstantine Khobodin weren’t supposed to get married in a bomb shelter.
They had planned a family wedding at a cafe in Kramatorsk, the east Ukraine city that became their adopted home after they fled fighting in Luhansk.
Yulia had a dress made. “It was a very simple dress with open back, it was very nice,” she said. “It was like my dream dress.”
Then Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24 and they fled to a hotel in Dnipro.
In the midst of the war, they wondered if they should just marry then and there. How long could the fighting could last? They didn’t want to wait.
“Not everyone supported us,” Yulia said.
Some wondered whether it was appropriate to marry at such a time. They were living through the greatest disaster of their lives.
However, most of their friends encouraged them to go through with it, so they asked if it was permitted under martial law, and nobody objected.
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