The War Department of Ukraine’s Office of the Prosecutor General now includes a dedicated analytical unit that conducts investigations of Russian war crimes using specialized OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) technologies, according to Ukraine’s national news agency Ukrinform.
Andrii Oliinyk, a representative of the Department for Combating Crimes Committed in Armed Conflict Conditions at the Prosecutor General’s Office (PGO), told Ukrinform that “at this stage of Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine, every prosecutor must become an OSINT investigator”.
“Our structural unit is fully engaged with OSINT. For instance, we have analysts — this is an analytical unit specializing in OSINT investigations, documentation, and intelligence gathering. Every member of my 15-person team can work with platforms that enable comprehensive OSINT investigations. In essence, they’re all ‘mini-OSINTers’,” Oliinyk said for Ukrinform.
In November 2024, representatives of the Prosecutor General’s Office took part in Ukraine’s first OSINT Hackathon, according to the Ukrainian news agency.
In 2023, Europol set up an OSINT taskforce to support investigations into war crimes committed in Ukraine.
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