Is military justice needed: what does justice for the military look like?
Press center UCMC announce
Speakers:
● Serhiy Rakhmanin, Member of Parliament, Member of the Verkhovna Rada Committee on National Security, Defense and Intelligence;
● Viktor Chumak, Chief Military Prosecutor of Ukraine (2019-2020), Major General of Justice (retired);
● Pavlo Bohutskyi, Military Prosecutor of the Western Region of Ukraine (2011), Southern Region of Ukraine (2014-2015), Major General of Justice (retired); Doctor of Law, Head of the Scientific Laboratory of Military and International Humanitarian Law of the State Scientific Institution "Institute of Information, Security and Law of the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine", Honored Lawyer of Ukraine (online);
● Valentyn Badrak, Director of the Center for Army, Conversion and Disarmament Studies; co-founder of the Defense Information Consortium;
● Sergiy Zgurets, Director of Defense Express; co-founder of the Defense Information Consortium (online);
● Mykhailo Samus, Director of the New Geopolitics Research Network; co-founder of the Defense Information Consortium;
● Oleksiy Yizhak, National Institute for Strategic Studies; co-founder of the Defense Information Consortium (online);
● Vasyl Pekhnyo, moderator, journalist.
Venue:
Press center of Ukraine Crisis Media Center
Organizer:
Defense Information Consortium
On February 5, 2025, at 14:00, a roundtable discussion will be held:
Is military justice needed: what does justice for the military look like?
Questions for discussion:
Prospects for the development of military justice in Ukraine
Do we need military police, military courts, specialized Military Prosecutor’s office, and military lawyers?
Problems of ensuring the rights of servicemen
How should combat officers and generals be held accountable?
Responsibility of the military for going AWOL and desertion
The role of the military ombudsman (Presidential Commissioner for the Protection of the Rights of Servicemen and Family Members of Servicemen) in the legal support of defense
Attention! In case of an air raid alert, visitors of the event can use the shelter located in the basement of the Ukrainian House
