The newlyweds of Kharkiv, love among the rubble

Nastya Gracheva and Anton Sokolov got married. They got married to Kharkiv, Ukrainian city devastated by the Russian invasion. The images of their happiness are surrounded by rubble. As soon as the war began, the newlyweds made themselves available to their country. She used to work as a nurse in an oncology clinic and he is a doctor. They started giving free medical help directly to people’s homes. When they finished i medicines available, they started raising to get funds and get more.

They got married on 3rd April in what remains of a complex of offices and shops in the university city of Kharkiv, one of the most important in theUkraine.

There are many Ukrainian couples who had decided to get married and have not changed their plans despite the Russian invasion. The wedding photograph of two soldiers went viral already in the first days of the conflict.

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Yaroslava Fedorash, another war bride, saw her image kissing her husband with hundreds of likes on social media. «We had chosen the date of April 29, but then there was Putin’s madness on February 24. My husband is defending the country and I am a volunteer. There was no point in waiting. During a war there is only the present ».


Source: Vanity Fair

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