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KYIV, Ukraine — Blinded by a Russian mortar shell, Ukrainian veteran Ivan Soroka couldn’t see his bride when she walked into his family home in a shoulderless white dress, a bouquet of white flowers in her right hand. Family members sit at the wedding lunch of Ukrainian soldier Ivan Soroka and his wife Vladislava Ryabets during the second day of …