A UKRAINIAN couple married in Britain surrounded by pictures of family and friends stuck in the warzone. Sweethearts Maria Bilyk and Vitalij Melynik had planned to wed in Lviv in June. The wedding …
He proposed during a trip back to Ukraine last December and when war broke out she decided to join him in Britain.
She said: "My mum and my sister chose not to flee Ukraine. They simply didn't want to leave their husbands behind. "I felt alone in that way - I just couldn't stay in Ukraine not knowing if I was ever going to see Vitalij again. Alongside pictures of their missing wedding guests, they placed sunflowers on each seat, Ukraine's national flower.
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