Two millions of Ukrainian girls departed from Ukraine to work as prostitutes voluntarily.

Ukrainian officials who struggle against human traffic discovered six groups of souteneurs and recruiters during the first month of this year. Chief at the Department on struggle against crimes concerned with human traffic Mikhail Andrienko informed about it at a briefing. Militia is to clear up how many girls had been crimped and sold abroad by souteneurs.

It is known that four millions of Ukrainians work now in several countries abroad. Half of them depart from Ukraine of their own free will in order to sell their bodies.

Most often natives of Kharkov, Donetsk, Dnepropetrovsk and Volyn oblasts are among these girls. Besides, it has become known that last year 52 teenagers had been exported for sale abroad.

By CN-Novosti daily