Tears of joy at new life


Ryabets (left) guiding groom Soroka during their wedding day in Kyiv, Ukraine. — AP

BLINDED by a Russian mortar shell, Ukrainian veteran Ivan Soroka couldn’t see his bride when she walked into his family home in a shoulderless white dress, a bouquet of white flowers in her right hand.

But when Vladislava Ryabets, 25, stepped toward him, Soroka wept with joy at the new chapter of life starting months after enemy artillery stole his sight.

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