Administrative and legal aspects of the activities of religious organizations of ukraine under the legal regime of martial law

The purpose of the article is to define the administrative and legal aspects of the activities of religious organizations of Ukraine under the legal regime of martial law. The article identifies the peculiarities of administrative and legal regulation in the field of activity of religious organizations in modern conditions. The author considers the increasing role of mechanisms of administrative prevention of the negative impact of religious worship on the formation of a child’s personality. Attention is focused on the state regulation of religious rights of military personnel in the combat zone. The author highlights the peculiarities of the mechanism of prohibitions related to the activities of organizations, including religious ones, which have close ties with the aggressor state. The author establishes that the administrative and legal component is traced in some peculiarities of legal regulation of administrative and legal regimes, namely, the legal regime of martial law in systemic connection with the right of citizens to profess beliefs which deny the use of weapons. The author concludes that the legislation regulating the activities of religious organizations has numerous flaws and gaps that do not correspond to the significance of the risks to national security arising from the exercise of religious rights and freedoms of citizens. The administrative and legal status of religious organizations now requires rethinking and taking into account the following trends: a) the need to protect the rights and interests of a child whose parents profess a religion whose observance of the tenets may cause harm to the child’s health or mental development; b) establishing a feedback loop between quotas for the appointment of military chaplains and the effectiveness of ensuring the religious rights of military personnel; c) strengthening the role of administrative and legal means in ensuring compliance by the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (in unity with the Moscow Patriarchate) with the requirements of national legislation; d) setting out the Law of Ukraine “On Alternative (Non­military) Service” in a new version that would take into account the current peculiarities of military service.