Brigadier General Dmytro Usov, Secretary of the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War under the Cabinet of Ministers, has joined the competition commission of the All-Ukrainian legal competition of student law-making initiatives “New Ukraine through the eyes of young lawyers,” according to the Ukrainian Bar Association (UBA).
According to the organizers, this gives contest participants the opportunity to receive feedback from a specialist who is directly involved in implementing the state’s strategic objectives in wartime.
Usov is a personnel officer and brigadier general who, during the full-scale war, is directly responsible for organizing and implementing prisoner exchanges. With his participation, thousands of Ukrainian defenders and civilians have been returned home. Previously, he held the position of deputy head of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine.
The competition for student law-making initiatives, “New Ukraine through the Eyes of Young Lawyers,” was established by the Vadym Hetman Kyiv National Economic University with the assistance of the National Bar Association of Ukraine and aims to involve young lawyers in shaping a vision of international legal security guarantees for Ukraine after the end of the war.
As part of the competition, participants prepare legal papers aimed at developing practical law-making initiatives, particularly in the areas of public administration, security, digitalization, human rights protection, and the functioning of the rule of law. The competition involves the preparation of a legal student paper on the creation of a draft international legal agreement on security for Ukraine.
The competition committee is headed by Eva Hofmanska, an international expert on human rights and mechanisms for protecting war victims, founder of initiatives to document war crimes and build mechanisms to help victims. The deputy chair (secretary) is Dmytro Lukyanenko, professor and rector of the Vadym Hetman Kyiv National Economic University (KNEU).
In addition to Usov, the commission also included Lyudmila Kozhura, director of the KNEU Law Institute, and her deputy, Svetlana Zaderayko, head of the secretariat of the National Association of Advocates of Ukraine (NAAA), Ihor Andriyev, chair of the NAAA Youth Committee, Yuriy Radzievsky, chair of the NAAA Information Committee, and Oleksiy Shevchuk, chair of the Center for Legal Information, Professional Development, and Expert Research
of the KNEU Law Institute, NAAU Speaker Oleksiy Shevchuk, People’s Deputy of Ukraine, former Head of the SBU Valentin Nalyvaichenko, Head of the Diplomatic Academy of the MFA Ihor Ostash, Head of the Kyiv Branch of the Notary Chamber of Ukraine (NPU), Chair of the NPU Commission on Informatization, Digital Transformation, and Cybercrime Prevention Natalia Kazayeva.
