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Watch: Former volunteer Ukrainian soldier challenges LGBT taboos

BBC
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01/17/2019

The LGBT community in Ukraine is often under attack but one volunteer soldier has gone public about his sexuality. Viktor Pylypenko, 31, decided to come out after hearing how the LGBT community was being talked about. The BBC’s Zhanna Bezpiatchuk went to meet him.

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