War zone vows amid air raid alerts

Kravchuk and his bride Lyashenko waiting for their wedding ceremony at a civil registry office in Sloviansk in the eastern Donetsk region amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. — AFP

GATHERED in a wedding hall in the Ukrainian city of Sloviansk, near the front line, Anna and Pavlo Chornobai exchanged rings to the applause of a dozen of the groom’s fellow soldiers.

The bride insisted on a white dress for the civil ceremony.