Prostitution in Ukraine is illegal but widespread and largely ignored by the government. Ukrainian women and children are subjected to forced sexual services and sex trafficking within the country and to other European, Central Asian and Middle Eastern countries. Ukraine's dissolution from the Soviet Union , saw the nation attempt to transition from a planned economy to a market economy. According to the Ukrainian Institute of Social Studies in there were 50, women working as prostitutes with every sixth prostitute being a minor. Ukraine is now known to have a greater number of trafficking victims than any other Eastern European nation after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. According to multiple reports the Ukrainian sex-workers are the largest group of foreign women in Turkey involved into prostitution and the second largest group of foreign women involved into prostitution outside the US military bases in Republic of Korea.