Insights
Articles, talks and publications.
Selected writing
State registration of a child's birth in surrogacy programmes with a foreign element
When the intended parents are foreign citizens, registering the birth takes more than the usual documents. On the three grounds for registration, the gaps in each of them, and the court cases that show what happens when something goes wrong.
Surrogacy for foreigners in Ukraine during the war: a lawyer's view
Written in the first year of the full-scale invasion: how births were registered and documents issued when offices had closed, what changed at the embassies, and why taking a surrogate abroad creates legal problems of its own.
Cybersecurity in medicine: protecting patient data in the age of digitalisation
Medical records cannot be cancelled and reissued the way a bank card can. On what Ukrainian law requires of a clinic holding patient data, who inside it is answerable for security, and what a doctor risks for a breach.
Artificial intelligence in assisted reproduction in Ukraine: legal realities, challenges and prospects
Ukrainian clinics already use AI to choose sperm and embryos. Ukrainian law has no definition of AI, no digital informed consent and no answer to who is liable when the algorithm is wrong. On the gap between the two.
Freezing and storing the reproductive cells of service members: how Ukraine's programme works in practice
Ukraine now pays to freeze and store the reproductive cells of those who defend it. On the rules that launched the programme in 2025, the three steps it takes, and the questions it leaves open after a service member dies.
Amendments to Order No. 787 of the Ministry of Health on assisted reproductive technologies: expectations and reality
The order that governs every fertility programme in Ukraine was amended in 2024. What changed for surrogacy — the surrogate's psychiatric examination, separate care after the birth, the form of the agreement — and where the new wording still falls short.
Speaking and professional activity
Selected talks and expert work on assisted reproduction law, in Ukraine and internationally.
Discussion of the draft new Civil Code of Ukraine on assisted reproduction, convened by the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine
Academy of Adoption and Assisted Reproduction Attorneys (AAAA), United States — committee meeting
Speaker: challenges in Ukrainian surrogacy programmes during the war
Round table "Protection of children’s rights in healthcare", Committee on Medical and Pharmaceutical Law and Bioethics of the Ukrainian National Bar Association
Speaker: protecting the rights of children in surrogacy programmes with a foreign element
Lecture series of the European Law Students’ Association, ELSA Kyiv
Speaker: how surrogacy programmes run in Ukraine under martial law
International Advisory Board on surrogacy
Speaker: update on the legal regulation of surrogacy in Ukraine
3rd International Congress on Reproductive Law, Kyiv
Co-chair of the organising committee; speaker, in English: travel documents for children born through surrogacy in Ukraine
Growing Families webinar
Speaker: "Surrogacy in Ukraine: what does the future hold?"
Webinar series of the European Fertility Society
Speaker: legal aspects of the work of fertility clinics — what patients and clinic staff should know
International symposium of the Ukrainian Association of Reproductive Medicine
Speaker: travel documents for children born through surrogacy and crossing the border under martial law
U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs — International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP)
Participant: regulation of commercial surrogacy