Ukrainian actors Taisiya Khvostova and Yaroslav Shakhtorin announced their divorce after nine years of relationship. The couple assured that the decision was joint, they separated without conflicts and will continue to work together on creative projects. Their love story began as students and survived the occupation of Gostomel during the full-scale Russian invasion. The celebrity broke up on Instagram.

" Many of you have noticed that we don't appear together. You wrote and asked, but I didn’t have the strength to answer.. It's time to share our common decision - to continue to go our separate ways. We have been thinking about this decision for several months and are ready to talk about it. We broke up without any drama, intrigue or investigation.. We will continue to work together on current projects and are ready to maintain professionalism in future ones,” they wrote..

The actors also thanked each other for the years spent together.

" We lived a small life, we grew, achieved goals, fell, got up again and moved forward.. But now it's time to stop and go on your way. Of course it was an extremely difficult decision. And I move on with great gratitude, taking with me wonderful moments into the treasure trove of memories,” added Khvostova.

This news became another high-profile divorce among Ukrainian actors.. Most recently, Natalya Denisenko and military man and actor Andrei Fedinchik put an end to their marriage after eight years of marriage. Subsequently, the artist confirmed a new relationship with entrepreneur Yuri Yaroshenko, with whom she was already engaged.

Taisiya Khvostova and Yaroslav Shakhtorin met while studying at the Kiev National University of Culture and Arts. The future spouses studied in the same course, but romantic feelings did not immediately arise between them.

According to Khvostova in an interview with Alina Dorotyuk, at first she was completely focused on her studies and did not even plan to start a relationship. Moreover, in her first year she dated another classmate.

Only after the breakup did Shakhtorin begin to actively look after Taisiya: he gave her paper daisies cut out with his own hands, met her after class and walked her home. At the same time, the couple decided not to advertise their relationship.

They admitted that they hid the affair even from their classmates. They came to the university separately, deliberately sat in different places during classes, and only their closest friends guessed about their feelings.

After almost six years of relationship, Shakhtorin proposed to his beloved. They officially got married in 2022, and celebrated a magnificent wedding already during a full-scale war - in 2023 in Khvostovaya’s native Sumy. Instead of flowers, they asked guests to make donations to the needs of the Ukrainian military.

One of the most difficult tests for the couple was the first days of the full-scale Russian invasion.. On February 24, 2022, the actors were in Gostomel. They recalled that they lived under occupation for almost eight days without light, water or heat, and Russian combat helicopters constantly flew over their house.. Shakhtorin told TSN that one day, out of curiosity, he went out into the yard and met the gaze of a Russian helicopter pilot.

“Russian “alligators” flew over every morning and every evening. They flew very low. One day I finally went out, and when they flew over the house, I met the gaze of the helicopter pilot. It was creepy,” the actor recalled.

Most of all, he said, he was afraid not for himself, but for his wife. Especially when the Russian military went around the houses and entered their apartment.

" It was really scary when they went around the houses. A soldier came to us, maybe younger than me. Only later, when we heard what these nonhumans were doing in other cities and villages, we realized that we were just lucky,” said Shakhtorin.

After surviving the occupation, the actor completely switched to the Ukrainian language in everyday life and abandoned Russian-language content, emphasizing that he deliberately blocks everything Russian in his social networks.

Taisiya Khvostova - Ukrainian theater and film actress, teacher at the Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts. She is known to viewers for her roles in the TV series " Zalezhny" "

Yaroslav Shakhtorin - Ukrainian actor and stuntman. His roles in the TV series “New Girl” and “The Woman’s Doctor” brought him popularity.. New Life" In addition to acting, he is engaged in stunt work, knows fencing, horse riding, martial arts and independently performs complex stunts.