Sex tourism in Ukraine

Currently, in Ukraine, the effect is constituted by a high level of population poverty and its feminization, limited options for social mobility and a very active system of organized crime.

[6] According to Ukrainian mass media, the country became a center for motley hordes of sexual adventurers because the price of a visit to Ukraine does not exceed US$1,500 (₴40,456).

It was noted that after the political turmoil of 2014 and the war in Eastern Ukraine, the Western guests started to perceive the country as an "unstable black hole."

With regards to the situation, the United States embassy published a list of typical local fraud techniques for Americans who visit Ukraine to meet their prospective spouses.

In addition to this, low living standards, neglected children, ubiquitous corruption and social consumerism make Ukraine a fast-growing market for child sex services.

For example, in the Polish press, all football fans traveling to Ukraine were depicted as sex tourists and all Ukrainian women as potential sexual targets.

At the peak of the obsession, roving gangs of local vigilantes even attacked foreigners who ordered prostitutes, and posted the videos of beatings online.