Waterloo Region man married in Kiev just days before Russian invasion
Global News
The family is about a half-hour outside of Bratislava, the Slovakian capital, where they have been staying while awaiting an opportunity to come to Canada.
A man from the Kitchener, Ont. area is working his way back to Canada after getting married in the Ukraine just days before the Russian invasion began.
After being delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic Kim Teylouni, 52, left Breslau for Ukraine in February to marry Iryna, a woman he met on a dating website a few years earlier.
“I was here for around a week or so, and then we got married on the 19th of February,” Teylouni told Global News.
“We got married in the registry office here in Kiev, and I got baptized in an Orthodox church.”
Teylouni, and his new wife, who has two sons, were in the midst of planning for a honeymoon in Greece, when bombing began.
“I put (the honeymoon) off for a couple of days, and thank god we did, because the kids would have been stuck in Kiev with their grandparents,” he explained.
“And who knows if we would have been even allowed back in the country or not?”
The Russians invaded the Ukraine on Feb. 25, quickly moving in the direction of the Kiev, the Ukranian capital, where Teylouni and his new family were staying.
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