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The aim. The purpose of this study is to conduct an analysis of violations of children's rights in the context of armed conflict on the territory of Ukraine in order to determine ways to improve the regulatory and legal mechanisms for their protection. Materials and methods. To achieve the goal of the work, general scientific and special methods of scientific knowledge are used. The formal-legal method was applied to the analysis of legal acts regulating the protection of children's rights. Thanks to the application of this method, the formulation of legal norms, their legal technique, the conceptual and categorical apparatus was studied in order to clarify the content and essence of regulation, and the norms of international and national law were determined to identify gaps, collisions, and contradictions. The method of statistical analysis made it possible to determine the dynamics of the number of cases of abduction of children or their adoption. Results. During the research, it was established that russian aggression against Ukraine is accompanied by systematic violations of international law aimed at protecting the rights of the child, in particular the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Geneva Conventions, and The Hague Conventions. According to the data of international monitoring missions, in the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine numerous facts of violation of children's rights to life, protection from torture, personal integrity, dignity, safety, as well as rights to protection from sexual violence have been recorded. In addition, children are deprived of safe conditions for life, healthy development and realization of the right to education. Such systemic violations require an urgent response by the international community in the form of strengthening preventive measures to prevent further violations of childhood rights. Conclusions. As a result of the full-scale invasion and occupation of part of the territory of Ukraine, the number of cases of violation of children's rights has increased significantly. In particular, this concerns violations of the rights to life, personal integrity, protection of dignity, the right to protection from sexual violence and a number of others. Based on this, the problem of protecting children's rights is of great importance and determines the need to improve the existing mechanisms of legal protection at the national and international levels.
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