Spare a thought for Ukraine’s single women. According to a new piece in the New York Times, war has “shattered” the dating scene for women in Ukraine.
The NYT details the story of a lovelorn Ukrainian woman named Kateryna Bairachna. “Ms. Bairachna met a soldier, but then he was sent to the front,” it reads. “She traded text messages with another man, but those fizzled out because he was in no mood to meet, fearing he might soon be drafted. On the dating app Bumble, Ms. Bairachna liked the looks of a hipster. But when she scrolled through his photographs, she noticed his amputated leg.” How good of the NYT to share stories about the real victims of this war…
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