Bohdan and Iryna Manko decided not to cancel their wedding ceremony in west city of Lviv despite theinvasion of their country by Russia, defying that there is a better future before for Ukraine.
In her white wedding dress with A bouquet of flowers, bride Iryna was a little nervous but felt comfortable being surrounded by family and friends to their traditional Christian wedding ceremony.
The groom, Bohdan said he was optimistic even though it is such a difficult time.
”Difficult times, but we are optimistic. We fight hard and we will win. We will do it help with all we can for fight this invasion and Ukraine will win. And we didn’t call off our wedding because we hope for a better future for usfor rebuild our country and live in a happy country with everyone. So we have a lot of hope now,” he said.
The couple had hoped to travel abroad to Rome or another city for their honeymoon, but those plans should be postponed car of the war.
Instead, they said they planned to stay in Lviv where they intend to help other Ukrainians as much as they can.
“With a bit of chance in the next months we will organize something beautiful for us,” he said.
The number of Ukrainians fleeing Russia invasion expected to reach 1.5 million on On Sunday, as Ukraine pressed the West to toughen sanctions and deliver more weapons to repel Moscow attack now on son 11th day.
People who Could escape Ukraine has spread into neighboring Poland, Romania, Slovakia and elsewhere. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called on those in areas occupied by Russian troops to fight.
Ukraine and the West countries decried Putin’s reasons as a baseless pretext for the invasion and imposed sweeping sanctions aimed at isolating Moscow and crippling son economy.
