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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Jessica Murray

‘Something special’: same-sex couple wed in UK year after fleeing Ukraine

Yulia (left) and Tetiana getting married.
Yulia (left) and Tetiana married on 1 March. Photograph: supplied

Yulia and Tetiana had spent a while deliberating over a date for their wedding before they decided it had to be 1 March – exactly a year to the day they fled the war in Ukraine.

“That date should be a sad anniversary, the anniversary of us leaving our old life behind, but we decided to rewrite this story and made it our special anniversary,” said Tetiana, 42. “We lost a lot and there is a lot of evil in this world, but we’ve turned that evil into something good.”

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