A Ukrainian couple who have been together for 22 years and have an 18-year-old daughter decided to formilise their relationship on Sunday by getting married on the defence line. Lesia Ivashchenko left her job when the war with Russia started last month and joined territorial defence forces to defend her district on the outskirts of Kyiv. She hasn’t seen her partner, Valerii Fylymonov, since the beginning of the Russian invasion until Sunday, when the pair officially tied the knot.