Why Ukrainian women go for Western men; one or two pithy comments here (Kyiv Post) (thanks, MK):

Here's another real-life story. I am an attractive, college-educated, slender American woman who thought she had a happy marriage and family life with a wonderful man. On a business trip to Ukraine, my good-looking, fit husband met a pretty, friendly, helpful Ukrainian girl who "just happened" to be hanging out at an Internet cafe frequented by Americans on business. Their friendship continued secretly via email and subsequent trips. It's taken her two years, but now he thinks he's fallen in love with this pretty, blonde, young homewrecker with no other responsibilities but to give him her best attention whenever he writes or visits. She'll get to move here, marry her rich American, and get her citizenship, at horrendous emotional and financial cost paid by me and our young children. I wish I could nuke her and Ukraine off the map.

And, below, my considered in-depth PhD-level analysis of why so many Western men throw up their locally-sourced jobs/wives/lives to marry Ukrainian or Russian women ;)