Nazar Kulchytskyy, the founder of  Nazar Kulchytskyy & Partners Law Firm and National consultant of the Council of Europe in Ukraine, spoke at the training session for the Department of International Legal Cooperation of the Prosecutor General’s Office. The event was attended by 24 prosecutors.

The training was held within a Strategic Session of the Department at the Training Center for Prosecutors of Ukraine with the support of the Council of Europe. The event was co-organized by the EU Project “PravoJustice”.

The training session was dedicated to international cooperation. Thus, quite a few Ukrainian extradition requests were rejected by European states for various reasons. For instance, some were rejected due to concerns about the potential physical danger to the extradited individuals, conditions of detention, and doubts regarding the fairness of judicial proceedings. 

In addition, the Department underwent significant personnel changes and a process of reorganization.  

So, the core focus of the training session was strengthening the Department’s team, defining strategic needs and challenges, as well as analyzing the specifics of international legal cooperation and extradition in the context of the ongoing armed aggression of the russian federation against Ukraine.

The facilitator of the session was Mr Hennadii Chuprykov, the national consultant of the Council of Europe. The session was also joined by international experts from the Council of Europe – Mr Jeremy McBride and Ms Catherine Carrie, as well as by the national consultant Mr Nazar Kulchytskyy.