It is over three months since Russia entered Ukraine. The fighting is still going on.
Members of Ukraine’s LGBT community reporting to the war have begun to sew the image of the mythical unicorn on their uniforms, writes Reuters.
LGBT is an acronym used as a collective term for lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people.
Ukrainians Oleksandr Zhuhan (37) and Antonina Romanova (37) told Reuters that the symbol gives them a “rare award” – a symbol that they are an LGBT couple who are Ukrainian soldiers.
SEW ON: The Ukrainian volunteer soldiers Oleksandr Zhygan and his partner Antonina Romanova have a symbol of a unicorn on their uniforms. Photo: REUTERS / Edgar Su
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The practice dates back to 2014, when Russia annexed the Crimean peninsula.
“Many people then said that there are no gays in the army, so they (lesbians, gays, bisexuals, transgender people and queers) chose the unicorn because it is like a fantastic” non-existent “creature,” says Zhuhan.
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Zhuhan and Romanova, who identify as a non-binary person with his / her pronoun, and moved to the Crimean capital Kyiv after being expelled in 2014.
Both work in theater, and Zhuhan is both an actor and a director, according to the news agency.
OUT IN BATTLE: Zhygan and Romanova on their way to fight from Kyiv. Photo: REUTERS / Edgar Su
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They have fought in southern Ukraine about 135 km from the port city of Odesa and in the capital Kyiv.
– What Russia is doing is that they are not just taking our territories and killing our people. They want to destroy our culture and… we can not allow this to happen, Zhuhan told Reuters.
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