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Western values: Why the U.S. is fighting its proxy war in Ukraine

July 14, 2025/6 Comments/in General/by Kevin MacDonald

Ukrainian court recognizes same-sex couple as a family in historic LGBTQ+ victory

“A very big and important step toward marriage equality in Ukraine, and a small victory in our struggle for simple family happiness,” one of the men said.

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Greg OwenJuly 13, 2025, 5:00 pm EDT
Zoryan Kis and Tymur Levchuk | Screenshot Bird in Flight

A district court in Ukraine has formally recognized a same-sex couple as family, the first legal precedent of its kind in the country, the Kyiv Independent reports.

The plaintiffs in the case were Zoryan Kis, first secretary of Ukraine’s Embassy in Israel, and his longtime partner, Tymur Levchuk. The couple has lived together since 2013 and were married in the U.S. in 2021.


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Ukraine does not currently recognize same-sex marriages or civil unions.

In 2024, Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry refused to acknowledge Levchuk as Kis’ family member, denying him spousal rights to accompany his husband on his diplomatic posting to Tel Aviv. The couple filed a legal complaint naming the Foreign Ministry as a defendant in September.

The court’s decision cited both the Ukrainian constitution and precedent from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), to which Ukraine is a signatory. ECHR requires member states to ensure legal recognition and protection for same-sex families.

The couple’s shared finances and property, joint travel records, photographs, correspondence, and witness testimony were among the evidence considered by the court establishing a long-term domestic partnership.

“A very big and important step toward marriage equality in Ukraine, and a small victory in our struggle for ‘simple family happiness’ for Ukrainian diplomats,” Kis posted to Facebook after the court rendered its judgment.

“Now we have a court ruling that confirms the feelings Tymur Levchuk and I have for each other,” he said, while thanking the judge in the case.

Public support for LGBTQ+ rights in Ukraine has grown steadily in recent years as the country has drawn closer to Europe, and in particular after Russia’s war on the sovereign nation in 2022.

A 2024 poll by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology revealed that 70% of Ukrainians think LGBTQ+ citizens should enjoy equal rights.

Legal progress on the issue has remained slow, however. Legislation recognizing civil partnerships was introduced in 2023 but hasn’t advanced through the Ukrainian parliament’s Legal Policy Committee.

The proposed bill would legalize civil partnerships for both same-sex and heterosexual couples, providing inheritance, medical, and property rights, but not the full status of marriage.

Kis and Levchuk are longtime civil rights activists in Ukraine. In 2015, the couple filmed a video for Ukrainian online magazine Bird in Flight, reenacting a recent social experiment conducted in Moscow featuring two young men holding hands as they walked through the city to gauge the public’s reaction. The responses in Kyiv mostly ranged from shrugs to bemusement, until Levchuk sat on Kis’ lap.

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6 replies
  1. Halford
    Halford says:
    July 14, 2025 at 12:19 pm

    https://www.rt.com/russia/621417-russia-west-clash-ideology-putin/

  2. Joe
    Joe says:
    July 14, 2025 at 5:32 pm

    I wonder how many of the normal dupes at the front getting their limbs blown off know of this. And if they do, how many of them find their needless sacrifice worthy of this perversion?

  3. Freddy
    Freddy says:
    July 15, 2025 at 6:58 am

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zN5lvSoICOI
    https://rumble.com/v6vmx7h-nightnation.live-guest-adam-green.html

    So Jews are not Hebrews, and Hebrews are not Israelites. Are Palestinians descendants of the Philistines? It’s all very confusing, what is what, and who is who? Who is right? Perhaps the “conservative” Dennis Prager (the Prague cemetery as the meeting place of the Zionist world conspiracy comes to mind here) knows the answer, or the crypto-communist Richard Wolff? Did Wolf Blitzer, who was born in Frankfurt like his tribal brothers, the Rothschilds, invent the Blitzkrieg?

    However, the question also arises as to whether Trump is German, Scottish, “American” or Jewish. There can only be one answer here, which only his boss Sanatanyahu (actually Mileikowsky) knows, but which his foster father Roy “the Godfather” Cohn also knew. Speaking of Mileikowsky: “Javier Milei compared his sister Karina with Moses, stating: ‘She is Moses, I am just a popularizer’.”

    As we know, Germanic people are not just Germans, but Germans are often the descendants of Germanic people. Moreover, the Geman share of the genetic heritage of the “German people”, which today is more un-German than ever before, is said to be only 10 percent, and this only through the maternal line due to the millions lost in the war. It is similar to the Faroese in miniature, where the women have Scandinavian, i.e. Germanic genes, but the men have Celtic genes.

    But not everything that calls itself “Saxon” is also a Saxon. Are Anglo-Saxons Saxons (or even Angles?), is a WASP more Saxon than a Dresdener or Leipziger, who to this day wrongly calls himself a Saxon, although he is most likely a genetic descendant of Sorbs, Kashubians or Poles? Jeffrey Sachs, for example, seems to be pursuing ostensibly contrary goals to Goldman Sachs. After all, the French are not Franks either, at least not officially.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sachs
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zak_(surname)
    https://archive.is/AuaG9

    Bought names, fake identities?
    https://archive.ph/KFe74
    https://archive.ph/wip/iMlqB

    In contrast to Jeffrey Epstein or Jeffrey Sachs,
    user Jeffrey Horne lists Adolf Hitler as number
    30 of the most famous German-Americans.
    Although Hitler was actually Austrian!
    https://www.imdb.com/list/ls051382031/

    This seems to be a protypical case of individual
    stupidity, which is, however, approved by collec-
    tive stupidity and thus becomes inflationary.
    https://www.perplexity.ai/search/content-in-english-https-www-y-J7Cfa0nnQFWisR9Nsr9K.g

  4. Freddy
    Freddy says:
    July 15, 2025 at 6:59 am

    But the general confusion doesn’t end there. You also
    don’t know anymore whether men are women or wo-
    men are men. Thomas Dolby is a British musician who
    has even achieved success in America with his electro
    sound thanks to MTV. He congratulated his son, who
    was born a daughter, on his marriage to a woman. Whe-
    ther she in turn was born a man has not been revealed.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z99tXydsRt4
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4SfoUcdsbI

    https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/features/gender-dysphoria-we-lost-a-daughter-but-gained-a-son-7815071.html
    https://www.bbc.com/news/av/health-18113566
    https://globalnews.ca/news/1694540/musician-thomas-dolbys-transgender-son-gets-married/

    Other track names by sound wizard Thomas inclu-
    de “Eastern Bloc” and “Budapest by Blimp”. Yet the
    Dolby family are not only experts in gender reassign-
    ment, but also in hair growth. Accepting nature, even
    embracing it, was out of the question for dad Dolby.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpLESu7NMX0
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-BzQE04Y0s

    Leipzig’s “DJ Lexer” (Alexander Wittig by birth,
    so not a descendant of Lexico-Matt) beguiles his
    equally dumbed down audience with a typically
    inimitably interchangeable, dull mixture of Euro-
    trash and Detroid-Chicago house, with a view of
    the Monument to the Battle of the Nations from
    the roof of a brutalist-communist “skyscraper”,
    designed by Jew architect Hermann Henselmann.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dAax1u0Wdo
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City-Hochhaus_Leipzig
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Henselmann
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthias_Lexer
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument_to_the_Battle_of_the_Nations

    However, the historical revisionist term “Mittel-
    deutscher Rundfunk” is a direct attack on the
    post-war order, which suggests that today’s
    “East Germany” is in fact Central Germany.

    The joke “Steckst ‘n Finger in’n Arsch, und drehst’ n!”
    is a crude, wordplay-based explanation of how the
    German city of Dresden supposedly originated.

    The phrase literally translates as “You
    stick a finger up your ass and turn it!”

    Here we can observe Mr. Dolby’s colleagues at-
    tempting to absolve British guilt over the destruc-
    tion of Dresden, without Churchill’s stinky pig fin-
    gers signifying “victory” (over the white race).
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYQ5w9lugyw

    We stand dismayed, the play is done,
    No final truth, no rising sun.
    The curtain falls, yet none can say
    What’s right or wrong, or who should pay.
    The questions burn, no clear reply —
    Just silence now, and a closing sigh.

    (Brecht, The Good Person of Szechwan)

    • Freddy
      Freddy says:
      July 15, 2025 at 12:52 pm

      Thomas “Dolby” first asks his (bald) Jewish friend
      and mentor David Hoffman whether the wig he
      has had operated on suits him, which is telling.

      Discover the newly found Mozart composition,
      ‘Serenate ex C,’ also known as ‘Ganz kleine Nacht-
      musik’! Unveiled in Leipzig and composed during his
      youth, this 12-minute gem was lost for over 250 years.
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SS-tEwn4H-k
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganz_kleine_Nachtmusik

  5. B. H. Beavis
    B. H. Beavis says:
    July 15, 2025 at 7:37 am

    Was the Prague cemetery cabal (grossly unlikely) really fact or gothic-horror fiction? Search Hermann Goedsche on-line.
    Umberto Eco (who won a Mussolini prize as a young writer) is familiar with conspiracy theories which he has brilliantly satirised in more than one book.
    The EHCR is a menace, and not only over the LGBTQUIA+BDSM….
    Ukrainian Christians are against the perverse activities of the “alphabet people” and “global capitalism” just as much as Russians.
    “Better to be a dictator than a ‘gay'” – Lukashenko.

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