On June 14, 2025, an event, the so-called Equality March 2025, took place in the center of Kyiv, which led to an escalation of geopolitical risks for Ukraine. The attempted LGBT parade, known as the Equality March, lasted only about 30 minutes. But its negative consequences will be long-lasting. Let’s analyze what happened this weekend in the capital.
The 2025 Equality March lasted half an hour
Despite the military administration’s ban, the Kyiv City State Administration (KCSA) somehow gave permission (although it had no right to do so) to hold the rally. A large force of Kyiv police was deployed to ensure order in the area of the Teatralna metro station. According to eyewitnesses, Bohdana Khmelnytskoho Street was blocked with heavy machinery (more than 100 units), and the perimeter was guarded by several battalions of equipped local law enforcement officers. The metro station itself was closed for entry and exit for ordinary citizens.
As a result, about a hundred LGBT activists (including representatives of foreign embassies) were able to take to the streets. But the 2025 Equality March was short-lived. Young people, veterans, wounded soldiers – young representatives of traditional communities in Ukraine – actively opposed this action and prevented a full-fledged “rainbow” march in the center of the capital.
However, even in these 30 minutes, the participants of the LGBT Equality March 2025 managed to do the main thing – to create a large amount of photo and video content. And this greatly helped Moscow’s propaganda, which distorts the image of Ukraine in Western media and social networks.
“Innocent” photos of the 2025 Equality March have become an information weapon
The materials created during the LGBT event were instantly spread on Western, particularly American, social media. The picture they saw there differed significantly from the reality: a short local event was presented as a massive and large-scale LGBT parade that covered the entire capital of Ukraine.
As a result, the Kremlin has the perfect material to promote its false theses. Spending billions on disinformation, Russian intelligence services convey messages to the conservative part of American society and politicians that Ukraine is a “leftist Biden project” with “LGBT flags in every window” and that the Armed Forces are allegedly made up of mostly LGBT people.
Already, bots hired by Russian special services are actively leaving comments under photos and videos. The main message: “russia has many shortcomings, but it definitely does not have this.”
Many Ukrainians find it difficult to imagine the consequences of this. The United States seems like a distant country, and we don’t seem to be interested in the opinion of the average American.
However, the situation is much more complicated. Through such materials and the peculiarities of their presentation, Moscow’s special services continue to shape the image of left-liberal Ukraine: “communist”, “artificial”, “filled with gays and opponents of traditional families”.
Why is it dangerous?
Further military and financial assistance to Ukraine largely depends on the position of conservative and Christian circles in the U.S. Congress and Senate. Information about such actions, presented from the right angle for the enemy, strengthens their doubts and makes it more difficult for us to make vital decisions. The result is fewer weapons, less intelligence, and more casualties at the front.
Therefore, the actions of the Kyiv City State Administration and the Kyiv Police are not about equality or tolerance. In this light, their indulgence in LGBT propaganda can be seen as short-sighted or even provocative. The people who allowed the so-called LGBT Equality March 2025 to take place in Kyiv pose a direct threat to Ukraine’s national security. A logical question arises for the Kyiv authorities and the Kyiv police: were they aware of these risks?
Not a “fight for equality” but a dangerous political force
The contemporary LGBT movement is not so much about protecting the rights of homosexual people as it is about promoting a radical leftist political order. This movement, often funded from abroad through a system of grants, aims to radically restructure society.
And it is not about equality of all people in society. Instead, the LGBT community wants to be “better” and more privileged. For example:
- They demand tolerance for themselves, but they are often intolerant of those who disagree with them. If someone expresses a different opinion, they try to silence them and ruin their reputation (this is called the “culture of cancellation”).
- The LGBT movement deliberately attacks what is the foundation of society: family, religion, patriotism, and culture. They say that their main goal is to convince everyone that biological sex (whether you were born male or female) is not important, but is only a role that can be chosen.
- This is not a social movement, but a political force with large grant money, its own symbols, and influential people in the government and media. Their goal is to set their own rules and control what society considers normal in relationships.
Therefore, it is quite possible to expect that the ultimate goal of this ideology is to reduce the birth rate and depopulate. This is impossible to realize in countries with a strong national government and healthy social traditions. But in a situation where there are many open collaborators among the authorities, it is quite possible to implement such a model. And we see active attempts.
Therefore, the LGBT Equality March 2025, which took place on June 14 in Kyiv, is an alarming signal. Due to the short-sightedness of local officials and the activity of a small group of people greedy for grants, Ukraine risks serious problems in the international arena. In a full-scale war, when every shell and every dollar of aid is worth its weight in gold, such “information gifts” to the enemy are an unacceptable luxury.
We should thank the youth and veterans who, through their decisive actions, prevented the situation from developing into a full-scale procession, as it would have had even worse consequences. And society and the government need to draw the right conclusions. Because the price of mistakes on the information front is measured in the lives of our soldiers.
