The article examines legal frameworks for environmental damage accountability in armed conflict, highlighting implications for Ukraine and international relations.
The article considers international customs, treaties and case-law dealing with responsibility for wartime environmental damage and protection of the environment before, during and after armed conflict. The authors provide the analysis of the rules of state responsibility, international humanitarian, criminal, environmental, human rights law, law of the sea, applicable in this field. The article examines the regime of international legal protection of the environment in relation to Ukraine-Russia armed conflict (in Crimea and eastern Ukraine) and analyzes the possibility of invoking responsibility of Russia as a state and imposing individual criminal responsibility for the damage caused to the environment in the course of this conflict. With this view the authors provide the overview of currentActual problems of international relations. Release 139. 201958proceedings against Russia in international courts and the scope of environmental harm caused as a result of the Russian aggression against Ukraine.
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