Ukraine’s inseparable couple ditch handcuffs and go separate ways

After 123 days, Alexandr Kudlay and Viktoria Pustovitova decide they were not meant to be together

After 123 days handcuffed together to save their on-again off-again relationship, Ukrainians Alexandr Kudlay and Viktoria Pustovitova have split up, shedding their bonds on national TV and saying the experiment had brought home uncomfortable truths.

The couple, from the eastern city of Kharkiv, decided to handcuff themselves together on Valentine's Day in a last-ditch attempt to break the cycle of breaking up and making up.