FBI working with US companies to collect war crime evidence in Ukraine
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FBI working with US companies to collect war crime evidence in Ukraine
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Ukraine is working with the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and American companies to collect evidence of war crimes by Russians, such as geo-location and cell phone information, senior officials said on Tuesday.
Ukrainian authorities are collecting digital information from battlefields and Ukrainian towns ravaged by the war since Russia invaded the country last February, said Alex Kobzanets, a FBI special agent who previously worked as a legal attaché for the agency in Ukraine.
"Collection of that data, analysis of that data, working through that data is something the FBI has experience working through," Kobzanets said at the RSA cybersecurity conference in San Francisco.
That work includes looking into cell phone information, forensic analyses of DNA samples, as well as analysis of body parts collected off battlefields, he said.
"The next step is working with national U.S. service providers, and transferring that information...obtaining subscriber information, obtaining geo-location information, where possible," Kobzanets added.
