Editor’s Note: This article was published by the twice-weekly newsletter “The Counteroffensive with Tim Mak” on Aug. 20, 2024, and has been re-published by the Kyiv Independent with permission. To subscribe to “The Counteroffensive,” click here. Imagine getting married anywhere in the world – not in a registry office or a church, but with just a smartphone and the Ukrainian app, Diia. Roman Lozynskyi and Svitlana Kisilova became the first Ukrainian couple to marry online, thanks to Diia, an app originally designed to store citizens’ personal documents like IDs, passports, and diplomas. Despite…
