Over 400 victims of trafficking in human beings identified in Ukraine in four years

This is stated in a report of the Council of Europe's Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (GRETA), which was published on Thursday, an Ukrinform correspondent reports.

"In the period 2014-2017, a total of 418 victims of trafficking were identified by the Ministry of Social Policy (27 in 2014, 83 in 2015, 110 in 2016 and 198 in 2017), including 209 men, 169 women and 40 children (25 girls and 15 boys)," reads the report.

In particular, most of the victims were trafficked for the purpose of labor exploitation (256), followed by sexual exploitation (87) and exploitation of begging (42). Further, 17 victims of trafficking in human beings for the purpose of forced criminality were identified in 2017, as well as six victims of trafficking for the purpose of the removal of organs (one in 2015 and five in 2016).

All of the identified victims were Ukrainian nationals. 

The main countries of destination of Ukrainian trafficking victims were the Russian Federation, Poland, Turkey, Ukraine, Germany, Israel, Greece and the United Arab Emirates. 

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