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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Ruchi Kumar

‘Can I complain while we’re at war?’: Ukraine’s domestic violence dilemma

Women with make-up on their faces in the form of cuts and bruises hold placards inscriptions in Ukrainian reading
Women wear makeup to simulate bruising in a protest against sexual violence in conflict on the streets of Lviv, Ukraine, in June 2023. Photograph: Global Images Ukraine/Getty Images

In May this year, Lubov Nedoriz, a volunteer social worker, received a call from the police in Pervomaiskyi, a town in the Ukrainian province of Kharkiv. The Russians had just launched an offensive in the region that continues today.

The police told her about a 30-year-old man who had recently returned from the frontline in Kharkiv and attacked his mother, who was now worried about his violent and angry behaviour.

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