Europe | A battle yet to be won
Ukraine’s gay soldiers fight Russia—and for their rights
War changes everything, including attitudes to gay people
|KYIV
When Pasha Lagoyda joined the Ukrainian army in 2021, he didn’t tell anyone he was gay. In his first weeks his room-mates at training camp found some “spicy texts”, as he puts it, and he was bullied. “There was aggression. They called me a faggot—all that stuff.”
This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline "A battle yet to be won"
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