INTERNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY IN THE CONDITIONS OF RUSSIAʼS AGGRESSIVE WAR AGAINST UKRAINE: CONCEPTS, EXISTING PROBLEMS AND THE WORLD COMMUNITYʼS REACTION

Abstract

The article examines the issue of transformation of the concept and state of international environmental security in view of the critical conditions in which Ukraine has been for the third year in a row since the beginning of Russiaʼs aggressive hybrid war against it. An analysis of existing problems with its provision, associated with an order-of-magnitude increase in modern conditions of the destructive impact on the surrounding natural environment due to a sharp change in environmental parameters in connection with a critical number of influencing factors activated by the war, was carried out, and a search for their solution mechanisms was carried out. The reaction of the world community to these problems is considered, and the need to consolidate efforts towards the formation of international environmental security based on the principles of prevention of NPS harm in the potential source of harm and caution, as well as the application of the "polluter pays" thesis to save humanity from global environmental threats, is emphasized.

The opinion about the expediency of studying the experience and results of the work of one of the international ad hoc courts - the International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and conviction was expressed in the importance of continuing research in the specified sphere of legal regulation in order to ensure the successful post-war recovery of Ukraine.

Key words: environmental safety, international environmental safety, natural environment, a sharp change (deterioration) of environmental parameters due to a critical number of influencing factors activated by war, global ecological threats to humanity, a significant increase in the destructive impact on the natural environment in the conditions of Russiaʼs hybrid war against Ukraine , the basic legal principle of the inevitability of punishment for any committed offense, branch principles of international environmental safety, the principle of preventing damage to the environment at a potential source of damage, the principle of sustainable development, the precautionary principle, the "polluter pays" approach, the law of evolutionary-ecological irreversibility, mechanisms of ensuring international environmental security, consolidation of efforts of representatives of different countries of the world to preserve the environment, the need to criminalize the crime of ecocide.