Ukraine: LGBTQ group captures Russian soldiers
LGBTQ Nation reported on February 28 that members of an LGBTQ group in Ukraine captured and beat a group of AWOL Russian soldiers hiding in the basement of the group's office in Kharkiv. LGBTQ activist Viktor Pylypenko, a veteran who rejoined the Ukrainian army last week, described the event.

LGBTQ Nation noted that Ukraine doesn't fully recognize LGBTQ rights, since same-sex marriage isn't legal there, but it doesn't have the same active persecution of LGBTQ people as seen in Russia.

Another Ukrainian LGBTQ activist, Veronika Limina, works for an NGO that promotes LGBTQ rights in the military. She has been running a camp that trains LGBTQ volunteer cadets how to fight. "I'm angry," Limina told The Daily Beast. "We will kill Putin."

She went on to say that many LGBT+ activists with military and paramedical experience have joined the Territorial Defense Forces.

Singapore: Court won't repeal ban on sex between men
The Advocate reported on February 28 that Singapore's highest court has declined to overturn a law criminalizing sex between men, on the grounds that the law is not enforced. One of the three men who sued, Roy Tan, agreed that the law was unenforceable but insisted the law should be struck down, since it paints Gay men as criminals.

The law itself, The Advocate noted, dates back to the late 1930s, when Singapore was a British colony. Convictions carry a sentence of up to two years in prison.

The LGBTQ+ organization Pink Dot SG said of the ruling that the law's "real impact lies in how it perpetuates discrimination across every aspect of life: at home, in schools, in the workplace, our media, and even access to vital services like health care."

"We may be safe from persecution today," said Ong Ming Johnson, another of the men who sued, "but we may not be safe ten years or two years from now, or even next month."