THE ROLE OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES IN THE INVESTIGATION OF WAR CRIMES IN UKRAINE: CRIMINALISTIC PROBLEMS

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of current problems of the use of digital technologies in the investigation of war crimes in Ukraine. The emergence and formation of new areas of criminalistics due to scientific and technical progress, the introduction of the latest digital technologies and tools of digital criminalistics are substantiated. It is noted that it is important to take into account the modern trends in the development of forensics related to the formation of its separate branches (directions): medical, genotoscopic, aerospace, nuclear, digital and military criminalistics. In the conditions of the war in Ukraine, the problems of researching digital technologies in the investigation of war crimes and improving criminalistic methods and means of combating crime in Ukraine in modern conditions are gaining special relevance. It is substantiated that the process of digitization of criminalistics is a natural stage of development and formation of modern criminalistic knowledge, which involves the introduction of digital technologies in various fields of criminalistic science, forensic expertise and legal practice. At the same time, special attention should be paid to increasing the role of criminalistic didactics, in particular, forensic training of investigators, prosecutors, courts, detectives, criminalistic investigators, criminalistic experts in the field of digital technologies. The most urgent and promising problems of the study of the problems of digital technologies in the investigation of war crimes are highlighted.