Assessment of Aspects of the COVID-19 Crisis in the Context of Ensuring Economic Security

The purpose of the article is to assess the main aspects of the crisis caused by COVID-19 and the onset of a pandemic in the real sector of the economy in the context of ensuring economic security. The research methodology consisted of the application of methods of the hierarchical ordering of the impacts of the most significant aspects of the crisis caused by COVID-19 and methods of analysis and synthesis for evaluating statistical data. As a result, using the hierarchical ordering method, we identified the key and most influential factors and aspects of the crisis caused by COVID-19 and the onset of the pandemic in the real sector of the economy in the context of ensuring economic security. The study has limitations, which are that the analysis was based on data on Ukraine and its economic activity on the international market. Proposed a methodological approach to streamlining the negative impact of the crisis factors caused by COVID-19 can be used in the relevant government agencies. The novelty, which is presented in the article, has an original value, which consists in the systematization and analysis of data on the real sector of the economy for the period of the pandemic and the corresponding negative factors are highlighted. Also, their orderings were presented through the proposed model.