The applicant, a national of Ukraine, requested international protection in Italy, where she arrived in 2016 from Odessa as an economic migrant to work in Italy due to insufficient income in Ukraine. Her request was rejected on 26 September 2019 by the Territorial Commission of Turin.

On appeal, the Genova Tribunal recognized subsidiary protection focusing on recent events, from the day Russian troops invaded Ukraine. The court noted that while at the time of the request for international protection the reasons invoked by the applicant were  exclusively economic, given the armed conflict in Ukraine, subsidiary protection must be granted as the applicant, in the event of return, would suffer a serious and individual threat to life due to indiscriminate violence in a situation of armed conflict.