Human Trafficking and Satellite Crimes in Wartime Ukraine: Trends, Victims, Perpetrators and Prevention
Journal: Journal of Illicit Economies and Development
Year: 2025

More than 6.2 million refugees from Ukraine moved to Europe and other states after the Russian military aggression against Ukraine (the war) began in February 2022. Against this background, trafficking in human beings (THB) appears to be a (trans)national problem in Ukraine. In contrast to this assumption, formally declared statistics related to these crimes in Ukraine are limited to a small number of registered criminal proceedings. According to our criminological hypothesis, THB crimes are oft