ABSTRACT
The character of the conflict in Ukraine requires a new approach to evidentiary law. Technology is absolutely the key. In the case of crimes committed in Ukraine, gathering of digital evidence took an unencountered scale – there are hundreds of thousands of digital relations of potential witnesses uploaded on the Internet so far: by the use of digital questionnaires and databanks, which can be also managed by algorithms. The character and scale of such crimes does not only require special forms of gathering evidence but also forces the use of this form: it would already take a whole year to watch the relevant video evidence and read all the information provided by the witnesses in the open sources. Such quality (digital) and quantity (abundance of evidence) – is a complete novelty in an investigation and requires a new attitude. Therefore, documentation of the crimes committed in Ukraine requires unique methods of verification, standardization, and management of evidence in order to deal with this overabundance. The chapter deals with the types of digital evidence used to document the conflict in Ukraine for the purposes of the ongoing international and national investigations, the methods of verification and management of such evidence.
