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To Victims of violence

The legislation of Ukraine on countering domestic violence defines four principal forms of violence:

1. physical one when:

  • You are beaten or pushed.
  • You are not allowed to leave or enter your home.
  • You are threatened to be killed or intentionally placed into the situations that may threaten your life and safety.
  • You are forced to consume alcohol or drugs.
  • You are deprived of food, rest or sleep.
  • You are displaced within one country or abroad against your will, by force, threat or deceit.

2. economic one when:

  • You have limited access to your money or forbidden to use your money the way you want to.
  • Your property is damaged.
  • You are deprived of or hindered in access to food, housing or property.
  • You are limited in employment, forbidden to study or work.
  • You are made to beg for money.
  • You are blackmailed.

3. sexual one when:

  • You have been raped.
  • You are forced into undesirable sexual contacts.
  • Your genitals are touched against your will.
  • You are forced to have sex with other people.
  • You are forced into pervert forms of sexual relations.
  • You are forced into the porn industry or sex business.
  • You are forced into pregnancy or abortion.
  • You are forced to watch the offender’s sexual intercourse.

4. psychological one when:

  • You are consistently humiliated and manipulated.
  • You are offended verbally or with negative gestures, facial expressions.
  • You are persecuted, controlled all the time, or threatened.
  • Your desires, thoughts and feelings are disregarded and ignored, and you are unreasonably criticised.
  • You are deprived of the right to protect your honour and dignity.
  • You are blackmailed.
  • You are ignored or discriminated for your beliefs, religion, nationality, race or origin.

Where to apply

In order to prevent and counter domestic and gender-based violence, the MSP is creating and expanding the network of specialised victim support services.

Ukraine currently has the following:

  • 59 shelters for victims of violence that offer 24/7 stay (for up to 90 days);
  • 101 day centres of social and psychological assistance;
  • 100 crisis rooms that offer 24/7 stay (for up to 10 days);
  • 110 specialised services of primary social and psychological counselling of victims of domestic and/or gender-based violence;
  • 715 mobile social and psychological assistance teams;
  • 29 call centres / hot lines;
  • 25 other facilities and institutions to grant assistance to victims (social apartments, centres of social and psychological assistance, reconciliation resource and correction recovery programme centre, anonymous emergency medical and psychological assistance points.

There are also 715 mobile teams, including 76 established at the expense of the civil society organizations and international charity foundations. Owing to the cooperation with the United Nations Population Fund in Ukraine (UNFPA), financial support by AMBER (Canada) and EMBRACE (Great Britain), 230 specialised victim support services were established as a part of the project “Cities and communities free of domestic violence” during the implementation thereof in 53 cities and communities.

In order to grant service recipients and providers access to information on the specialised services for victims of gender-based and domestic violence in Ukraine, the MSP has created the dashboard (there must be a link here as it is at the previous version of the website). It enables users to find the closest address of the service provider and contact it either personally or online.


Hotlines on prevention of and counteraction to domestic violence (all the calls are free):

15-47 - governmental hotline for victims of domestic violence;

116-123 (from mobile); 0 800 500 335 - national hotline on prevention of domestic violence, trafficking in human beings and gender-based discrimination;

116 111 (from mobile); 0 800 500 225 - national hotline for children and youth;

0 800 213 103 – hotline of the free legal aid system.


Victims of domestic violence can also rely upon the following social services:

  • awareness raising
  • primary legal aid
  • counselling
  • psychological assistance
  • representation of interests
  • emergency (crisis) intervention
  • shelter (shelter / crisis room)
  • social and psychological rehabilitation
  • intermediation (except for the offender)
  • social support;
  • social prevention
  • social adaptation
  • resilience service
  • victim programme

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Preventing and Countering Violence