PROTECTION OF ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS OF UKRAINIAN CITIZENS IN WARTIME CONDITIONS
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.33244/2617-4154-1(18)-2025-25-31Keywords:
environmental law, military aggression, international humanitarian law, ecocide, natural environmentAbstract
The article examines the legal aspects of the mechanism for realizing everyone's right to a clean and safe environment for life and health in Ukraine under conditions of military aggression. Based on the analysis of the norms of the current legislation of Ukraine, the main restrictions on access to environmental information under martial law conditions, as well as information security measures introduced under martial law conditions, were determined. It was determined that despite the war in Ukraine and its devastating consequences, the protection of human environmental rights must be ensured. Moreover, precisely in the conditions of war, high-quality and operational access to public environmental information is a necessary condition for ensuring the proper functioning of state and public institutions and the natural environment, since normal life, safety and health of people depend on it.
At present, given access for citizens within the entire territory of our state, given the full-scale military invasion, it is impossible to guarantee and ensure it to the full extent, as it was the case in peacetime. The military aggression provoked a whole series of temporary restrictions and measures of information security, which are due to the conditions of the martial law, and regarding free access to environmental information in particular. But, despite all the restrictions, even in the conditions of the war, mechanisms for ensuring access to environmental information continue to be developed and improved in the environmental legislation of Ukraine.
The main developments in the legislation in the conditions of military aggression relate to the improvement of such areas as waste management, the creation and functioning of the national register of emissions, amendments to the environmental protection legislation of Ukraine regarding the state system of environmental monitoring and information support for management in the field of the environment.
