UKRAINE, Apr 15 — On April 14, the first couples, of which one or two partners were military, got married through Army+ and Diia applications, reported Kateryna Chernohorenko, the Deputy Minister of Defence of Ukraine.

Army+ is a government application created by the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine and the Ministry of Digital Transformation.

“Ukraine has become the first country in the world where the entire marriage process can be completed online,” said Mykhailo Fedorov, Minister of Digital Transformation.

“Priority access to online marriage registration is a feature military personnel have requested in recent months. Army+ and Diia are responding to this demand. We give them (the military — ed.) the opportunity to do it remotely and without going to the State Registry Office of Civil Status Acts,” said Kateryna Chernohorenko.

In total, military couples filed around 200 marriage applications.

“Last week, with the help of Army+, Yuliia from the 47th separate mechanized brigade “Magura” got a wedding slot in Diia just for the next week! Today, she already has a husband,” the statement said.

According to Chernohorenko, eight couples got married on the first day of this feature working in Army+.

The Ministry of Digital Transformation reported that since the service’s launch, 4,000+ couples have already gotten married online, 9,000+ have applied, and more than two million Ukrainians have proposed through the Diia.

Ukraine still doesn’t recognize same-sex marriage or same-sex civil partnerships, although the draft bill for recognizing the latter, partially because of their importance for LGBTQ+ people serving in the military, was introduced in March 2023. Consequently, only what the state recognizes as heterosexual marriages can be registered through Diia and Army+.

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