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A new mid-year report from Nash Svit LGBT Human Rights Center tallies court victories, 26 documented hate incidents, thousands of Pride marchers across the country, and a civil partnership bill still stuck after 20,000 amendments.
A Supreme Court ruling recognized a same-sex couple as a de facto family. Months earlier, a new Civil Code wrote them out of the definition entirely. Ukraine is now moving in two directions at once.
Around 5,000 people marched through central Kyiv on June 21 for Ukraine's largest Pride since Russia's full-scale invasion — a defiant, joyful, and unmistakably wartime demonstration that ended with the crowd dispersing under an air raid alert.
KyivPride has set its 2026 dates — Pride Park on June 14, the Equality March on June 21 — as the LGBTQ+ movement in wartime Ukraine becomes a statement of resilience as much as rights.
