{"id":20611,"date":"2022-12-24T06:39:21","date_gmt":"2022-12-24T06:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2022\/12\/24\/reunited-the-ukrainian-couple-who-married-near-the-front-line\/"},"modified":"2022-12-24T06:39:21","modified_gmt":"2022-12-24T06:39:21","slug":"reunited-the-ukrainian-couple-who-married-near-the-front-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=20611","title":{"rendered":"Reunited: The Ukrainian couple who married near the front line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">In March, Lesya and Valeriy, two volunteers in Ukraine\u2019s civil defence forces, got married in a military-style ceremony at a checkpoint, days after Russia invaded Ukraine. Video of their wedding went viral. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Nine months later, Lesya has left the army although Valeriy continues to serve. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">BBC News met the couple in Kyiv as they were reunited after Valeriy returned from duty to celebrate Christmas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Corrrespondent: Hugo Bachega<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Camera: Tim Facey<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Producer: Rachael Thorn<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-europe-64007115?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] In March, Lesya and Valeriy, two volunteers in Ukraine\u2019s civil defence forces, got married in a military-style ceremony at a checkpoint, days after Russia invaded Ukraine. Video of their &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20611"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}