On Saturday, a couple got married in a refugee shelter in Dnipro, Ukraine, the bride was wearing a dress and guests in jeans gathered at the shelter to wish them well. The shelter, a former hotel originally planned for demolition before Russia invaded the country, is home to those who have been forced to flee their cities or homes but have not fled Ukraine. Dnipro is about 300 km from Mariupol. Nearly eight million people have been internally displaced in Ukraine, and Sergi and Polina are two of them. They had to leave their home, Rubizne, a town in the eastern Donbass region that suffers from almost constant bombardment. The couple decided not to let the disaster around him hinder their love. Footage from their makeshift wedding shows them standing under an arch decorated with purple flowers to take their vows and enter a small ballroom to the sound of applause. “There is love – even in war,” Polina told CTV News. ——
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