Ucrania - Physical threats (2013)

Physical threats and attacks on trade unionists have regularly been witnessed. In January 2014, Valentyna Korobka, leader of the Free Trade Unions of Entrepreneurs, was attacked near her home and hospitalised. On 16 December 2013 Volodymyr Stepanchenko, leader of the primary trade union at a coal mine in Donets Oblast of Ukraine, was attacked by the coal-mine security when he was giving an interview to a French journalist.