satellite and photo images before and after the invasion. It would be impossible to accomplish without the use of technology and expertise of the specialists who work on it from the Ukrainian side. I believe it would make lawyers’ work slightly easier when preparing the respective lawsuits against Russia and its war criminals. What role will Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies play in Ukraine and is there a roadmap for AI as companies race to integrate AI? There were a lot of software engineers in Ukraine specialising in AI long before now, and some of them have been later involved in creating LLMs which war and global slowdown in software development industry, we still see a number of M&A transactions involving Ukrainian tech companies. Moreover, we see a number of new product companies arising, especially in the field of defence tech, and we expect to see some unicorns here soon. How important is the role of technology in the exposition of war crimes in Ukraine? I have been a great proponent of using technology for fighting corruption and ensuring justice for many years, since the recent revolution in Ukraine, when one of the main demands of the students who started it were transparency and justice. And we have seen in the recent years how using technology and removing human factor helped to eliminate subjectivity and corruption in many routine operations. Ukrainian user case of governmental e-services (Diia) has become an example for many other democratic countries how to become more efficient and people-oriented. Russian invasion which started in 2022 unfortunately created too many cases which required fair investigation, documentation and further trial on a mass scale. And our tech experts have come up with various solutions which were integrated into specific platforms providing, in particular, for uploading images with evidence of Russian crimes (murdered or abused people, pillaged or damaged property, etc.) and locating them on the map. As a result, that data was further used for investigation and prosecuting crimes, including war crimes, as well as for building database of evidence for claiming compensation of damages caused by the military aggression. Given the mass scale of the damage, the group of experts involved is working at the moment on automating the assessment of damages using AI, WWW.LAWYER-MONTHLY.COM 23 Nazar Chernyavsky Managing Partner, Sayenko Kharenko Our firm has also played a key role in developing the new law which created special legal and tax regime for IT companies in Ukraine.
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