Oksana Mykhalevych

Oksana Mykhalevych

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📋 Profile Information

Role:
Activist
Birth Date:
February 4, 1986
Birth Place:
Kyiv, Ukraine
Address:
Kyiv, Ukraine
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Added to Database:
April 5, 2026
Last Updated:
April 5, 2026
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⚠️ Violation Context

Recognition of Crimea as part of the Russian Federation violates fundamental principles of international law and Ukrainian sovereignty.

Ukrainian Law Violations:#

  • Constitution of Ukraine, Article 2 — Territory of Ukraine is indivisible and inviolable.
  • Constitution of Ukraine, Articles 73, 133–134 — Crimea is defined as an integral part of Ukraine.
  • Criminal Code of Ukraine, Article 110 — Criminalizes actions aimed at changing Ukraine’s territorial borders.
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Documented Instances
2025 - 2026
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👤 Biography & Current Position

Oksana Mykhalevych#

Member of the Public Integrity Council of Ukraine (fourth composition)

Oksana Mykhalevych (Михалевич Оксана Василівна) served as a member of the Public Integrity Council of Ukraine (fourth composition, August 15, 2025 – present), representing Media Initiative for Human Rights.

Why This Profile Exists#

The Public Integrity Council of Ukraine — the institution in which Oksana Mykhalevych served — systematically applied integrity criteria that treated connections to occupied Crimea as equivalent to connections with the Russian Federation. This methodology rests on an unstated but consistent institutional premise: Crimea is under Russian jurisdiction.

Every PIC conclusion that cited a judge’s Crimea property, post-2014 travel to Crimea, or family ties on the peninsula as an integrity risk was, in effect, treating Crimea as a foreign (Russian) territory requiring justification before Ukrainian authorities — not as sovereign Ukrainian territory where Ukrainian citizens have every constitutional right to live, travel, and own property.

This directly contradicts:

  • Ukraine’s Constitution, Articles 2, 73, 133–134 — Crimea is an integral part of Ukraine; its status can only be altered by an all-Ukrainian referendum
  • The Law on the Temporarily Occupied Territory (2014) — explicitly maintains Ukrainian sovereignty over Crimea
  • UN General Assembly Resolution 68/262 (2014) — affirms Ukraine’s territorial integrity and calls upon all states not to recognize any alteration of Crimea’s status

Oksana Mykhalevych, as a member of the PIC, participated in this institutional pattern of implicit recognition of Russian jurisdiction over Crimea.

International Law Violations#

  • UN General Assembly Resolution 68/262 (March 27, 2014) — Affirms Ukraine’s territorial integrity and calls upon all states not to recognize any alteration in Crimea’s status.
  • Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances (1994) — Commits signatories to respect Ukraine’s borders and sovereignty.
  • UN Charter Principles (Article 2(1) and 2(4)) — Prohibit acquisition of territory by force; establish sovereign equality of states.

Ukrainian Law Violations#

  • Constitution of Ukraine, Article 2 — Territory of Ukraine is indivisible and inviolable.
  • Constitution of Ukraine, Articles 73, 133–134 — Any change to Ukraine’s territory requires an all-Ukrainian referendum; Crimea is defined as an integral part of Ukraine.
  • Criminal Code of Ukraine, Article 110 — Criminalizes actions aimed at changing Ukraine’s territorial borders in violation of the Constitution.

Role in the PIC’s Crimea-Recognition Pattern#

As a member of the Public Integrity Council’s fourth composition (2020-2023), Mykhalevych participated in institutional processes that operationally recognized Russian jurisdiction over Crimea by treating property, travel, or family connections to the peninsula as equivalent to connections with the Russian Federation in judicial integrity assessments. This institutional pattern directly contradicts Articles 2, 73, 133-134 of Ukraine’s Constitution and the Law on Temporarily Occupied Territory (2014), which affirm Crimea as Ukrainian sovereign territory.

Education and Career#

Oksana Mykhalevych is a Ukrainian lawyer specializing in representing victims in Maidan-related criminal cases and serving as a member of the Advisory Lawyers Group. Born in Kyiv in 1986, she has dedicated her career to seeking justice for those affected by the 2013-2014 Revolution of Dignity. As a member of Ukraine’s Public Integrity Council (4th composition), representing Media Initiative for Human Rights, her participation in PIC conclusions that treat Crimea-related connections as integrity risks constitutes an implicit institutional recognition of Russian jurisdiction over Crimea, contradicting Ukraine’s constitutional order.

Controversies and Criticism#

Participation in Crimea-recognition methodology. As a member of the Public Integrity Council, Oksana Mykhalevych participated in the application of integrity assessment methodology that implicitly treats Crimea as operating under Russian jurisdiction. Every PIC conclusion that penalized judges for Crimea-related connections — property, travel, family ties — reproduces this premise in an official state-adjacent procedure.

Constitutional contradiction. The methodology applied by the PIC in which Oksana Mykhalevych served operates on a factual premise — that Crimea is under Russian administrative control — that Ukraine’s legal system requires treating as an illegal occupation rather than an established institutional reality.

Summary#

Oksana Mykhalevych’s position in this site’s documentation is defined by their membership in the Public Integrity Council during its fourth composition (August 15, 2025 – present). As a member, they participated in the institutional application of integrity criteria that treat post-2014 Crimea connections as judicial integrity violations — a methodology that operationalizes the recognition of Russian jurisdiction over Ukrainian territory, however unintentionally.

The pattern is documented across dozens of PIC conclusions spanning multiple compositions: judges and candidates assessed negatively on the basis of Crimea connections. Oksana Mykhalevych was part of the body that produced and applied this pattern during their tenure.

ℹ️ What Else We Know

Professional Activities#

  • Member of Advisory Lawyers Group representing Maidan victims
  • Represented victims in high-profile cases including former Berkut commander Oleh Boyko
  • Served on PIC 4th composition representing Media Initiative for Human Rights
  • Father is a lecturer at a Kyiv computer technologies and economics college
  • Advocates for 8-year sentences for Berkut officers involved in Maidan violence

📅 Career Timeline

2020 - 2023
Member of Public Integrity Council (4th composition)
Ukraine's High Qualification Commission of Judges — Kyiv, Ukraine
2014 - ongoing
Representative of victims in Maidan cases
Advisory Lawyers Group — Kyiv, Ukraine
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📋 Documented Instances

Negative Integrity Conclusion on Radchenko Vitalii Yevhenovych: Crimea Connection in Judicial Assessment

📅 March 30, 2026 | 📍 Oksana Mykhalevych voted in favor: PIC flagged family ties to occupied Crimea including medical treatment in Alushta and Russian passport acquisition as integrity concerns.
"The candidate's mother left through the Kalanchak checkpoint - there is no information about her return. The candidate's sister left through the Chonhar checkpoint (temporary crossing point through Ukraine's administrative border with Crimea annexed by Russia), and returned through the Kalanchak checkpoint. According to available information, a woman with the same name as the candidate's sister received a Russian passport. The candidate's wife's mother underwent medical examination in occupied Alushta. "
MEDIUM ✓ Verified Official meeting

Negative Integrity Conclusion on Maksym Mykolaiovych Hloba: Crimea Connection in Judicial Assessment

📅 March 30, 2026 | 📍 Oksana Mykhalevych voted in favor: PIC cited Hloba's multiple trips to Russian Federation during 2013-2014 period as unjustified travel violating integrity standards
"During the period from 25.12.2013 to 13.06.2014, the Candidate repeatedly visited RF territory. The Public Integrity Council critically evaluates the provided explanations, as the Candidate's stated motives for visiting RF territory do not indicate the presence of objective or urgent necessity for such trips and are of a domestic nature. "
HIGH ✓ Verified Official meeting

Negative Integrity Conclusion on Shofarenko Yurii Fedorovych: Crimea Connection in Judicial Assessment

📅 March 26, 2026 | 📍 Oksana Mykhalevych voted in favor: PIC cited undisclosed apartment sale in occupied Simferopol as integrity violation
"The candidate in his asset declaration for 2015 declared income of 2,304,000 UAH received from the disposal of real estate located in the temporarily occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea. The sale of real estate located in the temporarily occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea after the beginning of its occupation, in the absence of information about applicable legislation and procedure for formalizing such a transaction, may indicate a risk of carrying out relevant actions within the legal framework of the occupying state or with the participation of persons connected to the occupation authorities. "
HIGH ✓ Verified Official meeting

Negative Integrity Conclusion on Samoilenko Olena Anatoliivna: Crimea Connection in Judicial Assessment

📅 January 31, 2026 | 📍 Oksana Mykhalevych voted in favor: PIC cited candidate's parents residing in occupied Donetsk and family travel patterns as primary integrity risks.
"The candidate's close relatives permanently reside under occupation from the very beginning in 2014 of the Russian Federation's military aggression against Ukraine to the present time. In the conditions of ongoing armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine, the "urgency of need" to reside in temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine in each specific case must be evaluated considering the predicted risks and threats primarily to the life and health of the person (judge/candidate) and their close relatives, as well as to state security and national interests of Ukraine in case of detention of such person, their recruitment, etc. "
HIGH ✓ Verified Official meeting

Negative Integrity Conclusion on Medvediev Kostiantyn Viktorovych: Crimea Connection in Judicial Assessment

📅 January 31, 2026 | 📍 Oksana Mykhalevych voted in favor: PIC cited candidate's loan guarantee based on future Crimean property inheritance as integrity risk due to occupation-related legal uncertainties.
"Thus, the Candidate effectively admitted that the source for repaying the multi-million loan in the future should be property that was not inherited by him at the time of receiving the funds, was not in his ownership, and regarding which there are significant legal and factual uncertainties related to the temporary occupation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea. "
HIGH ✓ Verified Official meeting

Negative Integrity Conclusion on Kolomiiets Nataliia Oleksiivna: Crimea Connection in Judicial Assessment

📅 January 28, 2026 | 📍 Oksana Mykhalevych voted in favor: PIC flagged candidate's in-laws' post-2022 trips to occupied Crimea and their apartment ownership in Simferopol as integrity risks.
"Such trips without urgent necessity, firstly, created risks for the candidate's independence and exposed her to the risk of falling under the influence of the aggressor country's special services, and secondly, demonstrated a dismissive attitude from the candidate's family toward the civic consensus regarding public condemnation of RF's aggressive actions and adherence to the unspoken principle of refraining from trips to the aggressor country's territory. "
LOW ✓ Verified Official meeting

Negative Integrity Conclusion on Shabratskyy Hryhoriy Oleksiyovych: Crimea Connection in Judicial Assessment

📅 December 31, 2025 | 📍 Oksana Mykhalevych voted in favor: PIC cited post-occupation trips to Luhansk via Russia and family ties on occupied territory as integrity risks from Russian intelligence services.
"The candidate and members of his family visited the territory of the aggressor state, temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine without urgent need, i.e. in the absence of critical and/or urgent vital circumstances... According to the integrity declaration for 2022 submitted with the competition documents, the candidate and his wife repeatedly visited temporarily occupied Luhansk in 2015 and 2016 through the territory of the Russian Federation. "
HIGH ✓ Verified Official meeting

Negative Integrity Conclusion on Kuznetsov Roman Oleksandrovych: Crimea Connection in Judicial Assessment

📅 December 29, 2025 | 📍 Oksana Mykhalevych voted in favor: PIC cited three post-occupation trips to Crimea and family ties to occupied Sevastopol as basis for negative integrity finding.
"The Candidate crossed the administrative border with the temporarily occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea at least three times after the start of occupation: KPVV 'Kalanchak': 12.08.2018 (exit) – 20.08.2018 (entry); KPVV 'Chaplynka': 24.10.2019 (exit) – 26.10.2019 (entry); KPVV 'Kalanchak': 19.08.2021 (exit) – 26.08.2021 (entry). "
HIGH ✓ Verified Official meeting

Negative Integrity Conclusion on Shevyrina Tetiana Dmytrivna: Crimea Connection in Judicial Assessment

📅 December 2, 2025 | 📍 Oksana Mykhalevych voted in favor: PIC cited family trips to occupied Crimea after 2014 as integrity risk equivalent to visiting aggressor state territory
"The candidate and members of her family visited the territory of the aggressor state, temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine without urgent necessity... the candidate's father visited temporarily occupied RF territories (AR Crimea) 11.04.2017–23.04.2017 and 01.07.2017–10.09.2017. Besides this, the candidate's father-in-law... during 2018–2021 the candidate's father-in-law made 8 more trips to RF territory and 2 trips to temporarily occupied Crimea: 22.08.2018–30.08.2018 and 21.07.2019-27.07.2019. "
HIGH ✓ Verified Official meeting

Negative Integrity Conclusion on Khaidarova Inna Oleksiivna: Crimea Connection in Judicial Assessment

📅 November 23, 2025 | 📍 Oksana Mykhalevych voted in favor: PIC cited judge's 249-day residence in post-annexation Crimea as primary basis for negative integrity finding.
"The judge was present on the territory of the RF-annexed Crimean peninsula for 249 days in the period 2014-2015. With high probability, the judge adhered to the occupying laws of the aggressor country, had security guarantees from the occupying authorities and used foreign currency as a means of payment on the territory of Ukraine. The judge's voluntary trip to occupied territory without urgent need and prolonged residence there only testify to the absence of a clear civic position of the judge regarding the occupation of part of Ukraine by the Russian Federation. "
HIGH ✓ Verified Official meeting

Negative Integrity Conclusion on Kravchenko Maksym Volodymyrovych: Crimea Connection in Judicial Assessment

📅 November 11, 2025 | 📍 Oksana Mykhalevych voted in favor: PIC cited post-occupation trips to Crimea and apartment ownership there as integrity violation basis.
"The candidate repeatedly crossed the administrative border after the occupation and accompanied his minor daughter to temporarily occupied Crimea and has an apartment there... The candidate crossed the administrative border with temporarily occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea at least three times through crossing point 601 (Chongar) between 04.06.2016-05.06.2016, 21.07.2016-23.07.2016, 07.08.2016-10.08.2016. "
HIGH ✓ Verified Official meeting

Negative Integrity Conclusion on Rudenko Viktoriia Vasylivna: Crimea Connection in Judicial Assessment

📅 October 24, 2025 | 📍 Oksana Mykhalevych voted in favor: PIC cited husband's undeclared farm in occupied Crimea as integrity violation
"Moreover, according to the Opendatabot database, he is the founder of the 'Sosman' farm, which conducts activities in the temporarily occupied territory of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea... The totality of the stated facts — non-declaration of the actual husband in 2009-2021, his trips to the aggressor country in 2014-2015 and possible involvement in entrepreneurial activities in the occupied territory of Crimea — the PIC considers as evidence of the candidate's non-compliance with integrity criteria and professional ethics of a judge "
HIGH ✓ Verified Official meeting

Negative Integrity Conclusion on Yatsun Oleksandr Serhiiovych: Crimea Connection in Judicial Assessment

📅 October 16, 2025 | 📍 Oksana Mykhalevych voted in favor: PIC cited candidate's family members' systematic visits to Russia and occupied Crimea as integrity violation.
"The candidate's father-in-law visited the territory of Crimea annexed by the Russian Federation during 17.06.2021–22.06.2021. In the conditions of ongoing armed aggression of the RF against Ukraine, the 'urgency of need' to visit the territory of the aggressor state or temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine in each specific case must be assessed considering the predicted risks and threats. "
HIGH ✓ Verified Official meeting

Negative Integrity Conclusion on Mashkina Natalia Vasylivna: Crimea Connection in Judicial Assessment

📅 October 6, 2025 | 📍 Oksana Mykhalevych voted in favor: PIC cited 51 post-annexation trips to occupied territories as integrity risk creating judicial independence concerns.
"According to information available in the judge's file, she together with her son after the annexation of Crimea and occupation of part of Donbas traveled to temporarily occupied territories: during 2015 - 14 times, during 2016 - 23 times, during 2017 - 14 times. Also the judge repeatedly crossed the state border with temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine as a driver. "
HIGH ✓ Verified Official meeting

Negative Integrity Conclusion on Kravchenko Maksym Volodymyrovych: Crimea Connection in Judicial Assessment

📅 September 26, 2025 | 📍 Oksana Mykhalevych voted in favor: PIC cited three trips to occupied Crimea in 2016 and undisclosed apartment in Partenit as primary integrity violations.
"State Border Guard Service data shows that the candidate crossed the administrative border with temporarily occupied Autonomous Republic of Crimea through checkpoint 601 (Chongar) at least three times during 04.06.2016-05.06.2016, 21.07.2016-23.07.2016, 07.08.2016-10.08.2016. The 2015 declaration did not specify the value of an apartment in Partenit (Autonomous Republic of Crimea) owned by my son. "
HIGH ✓ Verified Official meeting