As of September 2025, Ukraine had documented 376 cases of conflict-related sexual violence, CRSV, against 239 women, 137 men, 19 girls and one boy.
The crimes include rape, sexual torture, forced nudity and other violent acts, which occurred in territories occupied by Russian-backed rebels since 2014, but most of them after Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion.
In November 2024, Ukraine adopted a law which provides survivors of CRSV with the opportunity to receive interim reparation payments during an active war, becoming the first country to implement reparations for survivors of CRSV during an ongoing conflict.
In contrast, the first reparation laws in Bosnia and Herzegovina came into force a decade after the 1992-95 war ended.
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