Kyiv's Desniansky District Court formally recognized a same-sex couple (Zoryan Kis and Tymur Levchuk) as a family, establishing their relationship as de facto marriage under Ukrainian law.
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Kyiv's Desniansky District Court has formally recognized a same-sex couple as a family, marking the first legal precedent of its kind in Ukraine
The court ruled on June 10 that their relationship constitutes a de facto marriage, establishing them as a family under Ukrainian law
The court cited both the Ukrainian Constitution and precedents from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR)
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