Occurrence of domestic violence among women from Ukraine utilising social services in the Czech Republic. Possible causes of uprise of this issue and following support.

Domestic violence in the Czech Republic is an ongoing phenomenon, which affects not only native Czech women, but also immigrant women from foreign countries. Dealing with domestic violence can be especially difficult for immigrant women, as they may also be subject to issues like language barriers, having an insufficient social network, or stress from being in a new environment. Domestic violence perpetrated upon women of Ukrainian descent is especially relevant today, since the number of Ukrainian residents in the Czech Republic is steadily rising. Social service providers focusing on domestic violence are increasingly having to deal with cases of domestic violence affecting women who are third country citizens. The goal of this work is to draw attention to this topic, point to its possible causes, and show its occurrence in practice using casuistries. This work describes intimate partner violence on a theoretical level, where the woman is in the role of victim, and the man in the role of perpetrator, where both partners are interconnected with the cycle of abuse. Furthermore, this work outlines the factors contributing to occurrences of domestic violence in Ukrainian society, to which end it utilizes multiple foreign sources, which have not yet been translated into the Czech language. These..