BITTER SEARCH

According to information recently published by the US State Department, our country is a major supplier of human livestock to the West and Near East. First Deputy Head of the State Committee for State Border Defense Pavlo Shysholin informed The Day, “In the last ten years around 400,000 women were trafficked from Ukrainian territory.” Adding that many of these damsels cannot not even imagine what expects them in the countries that draw them, “The sad results of this are obvious: every fourth of these women has to work in the sex-business,” he stressed. However, this situation can hardly be explained by ignorance alone. According to Deputy Head of the Department of Consular Service of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Oleksandr Mishchenko, there are cases when women, having burnt their fingers once, still want to try their luck a second or even third time. “Still, as a rule, the result is the same. Every year our consulates receive over 5-6000 of those wishing to return to Ukraine.” It is quite difficult to stop this flow of illegal migration or even prove guilt of the white slavers. “Besides, it is a paradox, but often Western countries, being interested in cheap manpower, shut their eyes to this process,” emphasized Director of the International Treaties Department of Russia’s Federal Frontier Service Aleksandr Minilov.