Legal aspects of the application of the defense forces during the state of martial

This article delves into the legal aspects of employing various defense components. It analyzes regulatory and legal documents that define the tasks and purposes of Ukraine’s Defense Forces, including security forces, defense forces, the defense industry complex, and citizens and public associations that voluntarily participate in ensuring national security. The article outlines their functions, as reflected in new strategic documents. It demonstrates that the primary focus of security and defense sector development is on restoring and maintaining the state’s defense capability at an appropriate level. The paper identifies additional powers granted to military command under martial law, which are associated with certain limitations on rights and freedoms, necessary to ensure the possibility of introducing and implementing martial law measures. The study analyzes the entities entrusted with tasks related to the implementation of the state’s defense function, namely: the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the National Guard of Ukraine, and the State Border Service of Ukraine. It reveals that the lack of a unified normative act regulating the interaction between security and defense sector institutions within the framework of tasks for ensuring the state’s defense poses a certain problem. This item examines the powers of the National Police of Ukraine under martial law and emphasizes the legal status and organization of territorial defense units. An analysis of criminal norms reveals that the amendments and additions to the Criminal Code of Ukraine will become the basis for establishing constitutional order in society and the state as a whole. The article states that in the context of the aggravation of the socio-political situation in Ukraine, caused by the active influence of the Russian Federation on the spread of anti-state and separatist tendencies and direct interference in all social processes of Ukraine, there is a need to unite all components of security and defense, given the complexity of the threats facing the country. It is noted that it will be possible to separate issues into separate security or defense ones only after the elimination of the threat from the Russian Federation.