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Amid the maelstrom of the Trump-impeachment proceedings, Ukraine has been less a reality than a projection of America’s post-Cold War neuroses. Although we have learned something about Volodymyr Zelensky , Ukraine’s neophyte President, there has been very little said about the lived experiences of the country’s nearly forty-four million people.
One of the strongest states in Europe a millennium ago, Ukraine has had a devastating century, including two forced famines, first under Lenin, in 1921 and 1922, and then under Stalin, a decade later. Since Ukraine’s independence from the Soviet Union, it has faced several severe economic depressions and ongoing violent meddling by Russia. In 2014, Russia annexed Crimea and fomented war in eastern Ukraine, leading to nearly fifty per cent inflation the following year and to more than ten thousand civilian casualties and the internal displacement of some one and a half million people. In their long conflict with Russia, Ukrainians have not been submissive: they burned their own fields and livestock to resist Soviet rule; raised two revolutions, in the pursuit of democracy, after the collapse of the U.S.S.R.; and have fought Vladimir Putin’s invasion, despite lacking a functioning military at the start of the conflict. With the country’s economy unable to recover, many Ukrainians have been forced to work or move abroad, to Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and even Russia.
The Israeli photographer Michal Chelbin has made images of Ukrainian teen-agers at two different locations during two distinct periods: first, in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine, in 2008, and then in and around Kyiv, in 2019. Each time, her subjects were on the precipice of adulthood, attending their high-school graduation, an event that includes a prom. Our view is that of an outsider, although Chelbin’s father was born in western Ukraine, and she grew up fascinated by the black-and-white portraits that he had brought with him when he left as a child. In some of Chelbin’s photographs, the teens re-create those old styles: a subject stands, for instance, with a hand resting on the shoulder of a peer sitting nearby. Unlike teens in the U.S., the young men’s dress varies quite a bit, from tuxedos or conventional suits to brightly colored jackets or uniforms. The young women wear ball gowns or more casual short skirts.
From the photos, we cannot tell whether the teens are Ukrainian- or Russian-speaking. One of the results of the war with Russia has been a stronger civic identity. Russian speakers in Ukraine-controlled territories have become more committed to Ukraine, and Ukrainians as a whole seem more open to Russian speakers—including to Zelensky, who won in a landslide.
A few of these teens, Chelbin told me, are students from an internat , a Soviet-style boarding school that serves mostly poor or under-parented children. Others attend public schools. Some of the teens are pictured as heterosexual couples, but not all of them—though none are likely to be out-and-proud L.G.B.T.Q., even as participation in this year’s Kyiv Pride was nearly double last year’s and as Zelensky offered lukewarm support.
Unlike a prom in the United States, graduation proms in Ukraine include students, teachers, and parents and follow an official school ceremony. Graduates stay up all night and watch the sunrise from an important, scenic locale in their community. Until recently, students usually wore graduation sashes—traditionally red with golden letters—only on the last day before the exam period, known as the Day of the Farewell Bell. But in Chelbin’s photographs from 2019 some of the graduates chose to wear them to their graduation prom, now in the colors of the Ukrainian flag. Since the last revolution, more young people have been wearing these colors, and embracing traditional textiles and hair styles, in their daily lives.
Teens are, in their developmental stages, driven by hormones. Surprisingly, Chelbin’s photos are relatively unsexualized. According to Vlada Nedak, who leads mother-daughter workshops in Ukraine for Project Kesher —an organization that seeks to promote Jewish community and gender equality—young people’s knowledge about their bodies comes from the Internet, often from pornography that kids first see in grade school, and includes even fewer empowering messages about consent or women’s rights to pleasure than in the United States. These days especially, teens are focussed on their visual representation, as so much of their lives are lived online—even in Ukraine, where the average income is less than a tenth of what it is in the U.S. Chelbin’s photos, however, are not performative in the ways of most young people’s photos in the twenty-first century—the emotiveness is paradoxical and emerges from what isn’t shown.
These pictures should make us think about the possible futures of these young people, and of their country. Parts of the Donetsk region in eastern Ukraine are still under Moscow’s control, and the rest of the region is struggling to rebuild from the war. In Kyiv, Ukraine’s biggest and richest city, teens have been found living in tunnels underneath the infrastructure that was built for the 2012 European Football Championship. One in five of those who age out of the internat system end up in prison; one in ten attempt or commit suicide. In some parts of the country, rates of H.I.V. infection are higher than in the rest of Europe. Conscription for men, a Soviet legacy, was scrapped in 2013 but then reinstated just a year later, owing to the war. Women, too, have volunteered in greater numbers, and bans on women in combat and military leadership were recently lifted. Jobs, especially working-class ones, are few and underpaid, though they have a new resonance following the Russian invasion, as illustrated in a new documentary, “ Heat Singers, ” about heating-utility workers who sing folk songs in national dress. There are also unexpected new jobs, such as de-mining the Ukraine-occupied areas of the Donbass, a tedious but important job done predominantly by women. Experts estimate that it will take decades to make this region safe again for the common pastime of mushroom hunting.
There is another future possible in this era. Young people have been mobilized by grassroots activism, which sprung up out of the Revolution of Dignity, in 2014, centering on issues such as fighting corruption and supporting the environment, feminism , and the war effort. According to Emily Channell-Justice, the head of Harvard’s new Temerty Contemporary Ukraine Program , “Ukraine is at a point where young people are trying to build the world they want to live in, but they are limited by the economic instability they inherited from previous generations and an unending war caused by an aggressive neighbor. They are making change wherever they can, whether at the institutional level or in their own communities and everyday lives.”
Chelbin’s photos elicit the timelessness of portraiture but also the timeliness of this moment, inviting all of us to reflect. Looking at the eyes of the young people photographed in 2008, before the global turn to illiberal populism, with its demagoguery and myopia, we can wonder what has happened in both their and our lives over the past decade. Looking into the eyes of the recent graduates, we draw back and see that we have to enter into the third decade of this new millennium with a commitment to try better for them.
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Ukraine’s sex trade has some 80,000 women working as prostitutes, but with scant legal protections and bad bosses, it’s much more than just a crime.
“When I was younger, I remember seeing job adverts in the back of magazines for ‘pretty girls looking to earn a lot of money.’ I knew — everyone knew — what it meant,” Ana said, wrapping a loose thread in her skirt around her finger. 
When she came across a vague job advert for an office manager, however, she took it at face value, and there was this: It paid more than double what the 22-year-old graduate was earning at her supermarket job. “I worked 12 to 14 hours a day, five days a week, getting $220 a month. It wasn’t a life.” 
So she scheduled an interview. Before going into the interview room, she was told to leave her bag and phone in the corridor. Once inside she was immediately told the job was in prostitution . “You get half, and we get half: $50 each.”
“I was upset, and I immediately rejected the offer.” 
But back at her supermarket job, she kept thinking how the money could change her life. A few weeks later, she called the agency back and agreed to try it. 
“I don’t see anything wrong with benefiting from men like this. Is it that different to women getting into relationships just for a comfortable life? The essence is the same.” 
“I was terrified on my first night, but I did it anyway.”
When her shift finished at 6 a.m., she was exhausted. All she could think about was collecting her pay. But instead of the promised 50 percent, she got 30 percent, the rest going toward things like condoms .  
“They told me, ‘If you want more money, take more clients. The more hours you do the less percentage we take.’ That’s when I started to understand how the system works,” said Ana. The pimps maximize their profits from each woman by selling their services to as many men as possible. 
“There was a time I thought sex work was glamorous and well-paid. But most women around me are in difficult situations. Some have escaped a violent family and are just desperate for the money, so they take seven clients a night. I can’t imagine taking more than four for health reasons. Almost all of them would fantasize about being saved by one of their clients. Like that film Pretty Woman .” She rolls her eyes.
In her first few weeks of work, the brothel was raided by police. Officers stormed into her room. Ana was issued a fine, and her client was given a stern reminder that prostitution is illegal. When the police cleared the scene, the pimp consoled his workforce, promising them it would not happen again. He said he’d reached an agreement with the officers: The agency would pay 70,000 hryvnia, or about $2,658 a month, for police to turn a blind eye.
“I realized most of our earnings go to bribing the police,” she said. “Or they say, ‘If you want to carry on working, give us this amount of money or do this favor for us.’ They get away with it because what can a sex worker do about it? Report it to the police?” 
She tolerated the agency work because of the pay — until one night. A client stepped into the room and she sensed something wasn’t right. During sex, he started suffocating her. After managing to push him off, she fell out of the room crying, panicking and barely able to breathe. She ran to the brothel manager for help. He told her to pull herself together while the client strolled past them to the exit, fastening his belt.
She asked for him to be blacklisted. “What blacklist?” her pimp scoffed.  
“A guy can do whatever he wants with a sex worker. He knows he’s paid the money, so he doesn’t have to be respectful or ‘normal.’ He hurts me, He doesn’t hurt me … He has sex however he likes and asks you to do whatever he likes. With his wife or mistress, of course, he has to be respectful and do what’ll make her comfortable so she enjoys sex,” she said.
Ana considers herself lucky, as she knows sex workers who’ve been raped, assaulted, beaten up by clients and police — or men who claim to be police — and had their money stolen. The pimps shrug the abuse off as an inevitable part of the job, and women who report it to the police risk getting in more trouble. When one friend decided to report an assault, the police said: “You’re a prostitute. What do you expect?” 
“Women pick themselves up and go back to work, and no one punishes these men.”
Ana’s friend told her to read a forum where Russian-speaking sex workers around the world post advice anonymously and pictures of police or clients. The forum has a blacklist of clients, agencies, hotels and other locations. Sex workers are finding underground ways to bring the abuse out of the shadows and to protect each other. So last year, Ana cut herself off from the agency to work independently with a few trustworthy clients.
“Men only care about a woman’s appearance. They’re not interested in our deep, inner world. I knew the truth before I became a sex worker,” says Ana as she looks down at her handbag and fiddles with its clasp. Ana says working independently gives her the control she needs in her life.
“I don’t see anything wrong with benefiting from men like this. Is it that different to women getting into relationships just for a comfortable life? The essence is the same.” 
She is currently deciding whether to accept a marriage proposal from a client who’s offered her a new life in China. But she worries what’ll happen when she is 30 and, in her words, “old.” “I could be replaced by a younger woman and left with nothing,” she says, still looking down at her bag. “I won’t be so independent then.”
“But I’m doing this for the money. It’s not forever. One day, I want to have my own business and sell clothes and accessories.”

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POLICE have swooped on a couple who allegedly filmed themselves having sex with their four-year-old daughter and sold the footage to Australians.
AUSTRALIAN police gave Ukrainian cops a vital tip-off which led to the arrest of a couple who allegedly filmed themselves repeatedly having sex with their four-year-old daughter.
According to Ukrainian media, the man, 29, and woman, 30, who are understood to be cousins, then allegedly sold the depraved footage online for as little as $70 in cryptocurrency to sick customers in Australia and Asia.
Local police footage shows the couple being detained in the eastern European country and cops seizing videos, pictures and sex toys.
According to TSN channel in Ukraine, Australian investigators spotted an identifying code in a sick video featuring a four-year-old girl in explicit sex scenes with her parents.
The code drew police in Europe to a chain of shops in the Poltava region of Ukraine.
But cops couldn’t find the couple in Poltova.
“The Australians kept pushing their Ukrainian colleagues — (urging them to) search more — because new videos with some unknown little child were repeatedly being uploaded from the same source,” reported the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper.
A police spokesman told Ukrainian media the couple are “pure evil” — adding that they sold the footage for access fees ranging from $70 and $140.
Police eventually traced the couple hundreds of kilometres away from Poltava in Kryvyi Rih, a city in the Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine, where they routinely moved every three months.
Dramatic police footage of the arrest shows cops interrogating the male suspect in a raid, while the woman hugged her daughter on a bed.
After a hospital check-up the young girl was taken into care and sent to a rehabilitation centre. The parents are being detained for two months pending further investigations.
Lawyer Ekaterina Malykhina said the girl was distressed.
“She was in a bad way, she was lost, she did not talk to anybody,” she told Ukrainian media.
“Now she is talking to children, she made some friends and trusts them.
“When we heard for the first time about the four-year-old girl being exploited by her parents, I ordered the head of the local police department to stop all other work and investigate this as soon as possible …
“Those beasts have been arrested by police in Kryvyi Rih. There is very little that surprises me, but this is the ugliest possible crime, against a child.
“How could they do it to a dependent child?”
It is not yet known whether any Australians have been arrested for accessing the footage.
The tip-off is understood to have come from Queensland Police.
It is understood that more people might be involved in the operation and a search is on for an accomplice.
The NSW government has pulled an ad for its new consent laws after concerns were raised about TikTok videos posted by the male actor.
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