Berkeley Protocol in Ukraine: Ukrinform hosts a professional discussion on digital evidence and OSINT in criminal proceedings
According to Oleksiy Shevchuk, Chairman of the Board of the Ukrainian National Lobbyists Association, on Friday, May 22, 2026, at 13:30, Ukrinform will host a discussion on “Implementation of the Berkeley Protocol in Ukraine: from the international standard to the national procedural practice.”
The event is organized by the Ukrainian National Lobbyists Association.
The discussion will be moderated by Oleksiy Shevchuk, Chairman of the Board of the UNLA.
Participants of the event
The event will be attended by:
- Iryna Hloviuk is a Doctor of Law, Professor of the Department of Criminal Procedure and Criminalistics at the State Internal Affairs Department, Honored Lawyer of Ukraine;
- Vasyl Kostytskyi – Doctor of Law, Professor, Honored Lawyer of Ukraine, Academician of the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine;
- Liudmyla Kozhura is a Doctor of Law, Professor, Director of the Vadym Hetman Kyiv National Economic University Law Institute;
- Oleksandr Shadrin is a partner at Barristers, Doctor of Philosophy in Law;
- Stanislav Samoilov is the Head of the 3rd Directorate of the Cyber Police Department of the National Police of Ukraine;
- Yuriy Radzievskyi is an attorney at law, partner at Barristers;
- Oleksandr Kravchenko is a senior investigator for particularly important cases at the Main Investigation Department of the National Police of Ukraine;
- Andriy Yosypov is an attorney-at-law, partner at Barristers, PhD in Law;
- Olena Hadzhuk is an attorney at law, managing partner of HADZHUK & PARTNERS, freelance advisor to the Verkhovna Rada Committee on Law Enforcement, Ph;
- Oleksandr Chernykh is a lawyer and member of the Board of the Ukrainian National Lobbyists Association.
Representatives of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the Office of the Prosecutor General, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, the Security Service of Ukraine, the National Police of Ukraine, international organizations, human rights institutions, media and academia are also invited to participate.
Why it is important
The event aims to provide a comprehensive professional discussion of international standards for documenting digital evidence, the procedural status of OSINT materials in criminal proceedings in Ukraine, and the prospects for implementing the Berkeley Protocol in national law enforcement practice.
Special attention will be paid to the participants:
- documenting war crimes;
- the use of digital evidence in criminal proceedings;
- admissibility and authenticity of OSINT materials;
- practice of using photo, video and satellite images;
- the need to regulate the standards for working with digital evidence;
- forming a unified interagency methodology for documenting international crimes.
The event will serve as a platform for open professional dialog between representatives of the legal community, law enforcement agencies, academia, and digital security experts.
The format of the event is offline (Hall 2) and online.
The broadcast will take place on Ukrinform’s website and YouTube channel.
Venue: 8/16 Bohdan Khmelnytsky St., Kyiv.
