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The claim: Ukraine is the money laundering and child sex trafficking "capital of the world"
An information war about the Russia-Ukraine conflict is continuing online even as troops clash on the ground, with bots spreading disinformation and Russian state media seeking to divide Western viewers.
A viral Facebook post from April 2 claims Ukraine is the money laundering and child sex trafficking "capital of the world." The post accumulated more than 1,000 interactions in less than a week.
But experts don't rank Ukraine as the worst in either human trafficking or money laundering.
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Ukraine isn't the worst when it comes to human trafficking
Though several organizations track data about human trafficking, there is no exact country-by-country index for child sex trafficking in particular, according to Kristen Leanderson Abrams, senior director of combatting human trafficking at the McCain Institute.