MEDICAL AND FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION OF PERSONS WHO HAVE BECOME VICTIMS OF WAR CRIMES OF THE RUSSIAN WAR AGAINST...

The relevance of the study is determined by necessity of accurate forensic studies to identify victims of war crimes in Ukraine for the practical use of the most effective measures by law enforcement agencies to establish such persons. The aim of the research is to reveal procedure and opportunities of identification of victims of war crimes, who may be combatants and civilians are according to the results of the analysis of regulations, practices of forensic identification of corpses of unidentified persons. Methodological framework of research are scientific and theoretical methods, which are analysis, synthesis, concretization, generalization, analogy, as well as the empirical method of studying normative sources and special literature, the method of systematic approach in order to form conclusions to reveal ways to solve the problem. Result of the research is conclusion that the standards that are used today in Ukraine and the opportunity of conducting medical and forensic examination to identify unidentified persons who have become victims of war crimes, corresponding to modern European approaches. It is noted that it is impossible to solve the problem of identification only with the help of traditional methods of medical and forensic identification of a person. It is substantiated that the use of modern methods of deoxyribonucleic acid identification by forensic doctors can be promising for ensuring of tasks of the identification of unidentified corpses and fragments of human bodies. It was emphasized that the disadvantage is that today in Ukraine there is no database of deoxyribonucleic acid identification of all or some categories of citizens of Ukraine. It was concluded that it would be effective to approve the concept of the State Target Program to expand the network of deoxyribonucleic acid laboratories and create a National Database of Human Genetic Traits, to do this. The practical value of the work consists in ensuring that forensic doctors perform the tasks of identifying persons of unrecognizable corpses and fragments of human bodies using the modern method of deoxyribonucleic acid identification.