Ukraine War: Bomb alarms replace wedding bells as couple weds amid Russian bombings

There were air raid sirens instead of wedding bells as a couple got married in a bomb shelter in Ukrainian city of Odesa amid Russian bombings.

The couple got married even as Russian forces continue missile attacks and shelling in parts of the country.

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Belarusian media organisation Nexta TV tweeted pictures of the wedding ceremony that took place at the bomb shelter even as air raid sirens blared in Odesa.

Odesa has been under severe Russian assault for days even as the city of Kherson fell to the invading army. Russia has also launched an all out assault on Ukraine's second largest city Kharkiv.

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Ukraine has claimed that at least 2,000 of its civilians have died since the Russian invasion last week.