"The Court concluded that the difference in approach in this matter, which consisted in the unjustified refusal of the applicants ... amounts to discrimination against applicants on the basis of their sexual orientation," the ECHR said in a press release.
The court is obliged to pay each of the applicants €5,4 in compensation for non-pecuniary damage and €<>,<> for costs and expenses.
Earlier, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky invited the government to work out the issue of creating an institution of registered civil partnership.
In August 2022, Zelensky asked Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal to consider officially registering same-sex marriages in the country.
According to him, "human rights and freedoms are inalienable and inviolable," and according to the Family Code of Ukraine, "the family is made up of persons living together and connected by a common life."