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Abstract

The article notes that the Russian occupation of the Crimea, the destabilization of eastern Ukraine and the provocations that Russia arranges in the airspace of the EU member states, undermined the security system established after the Cold War. There is a threat of military attack and occupation of Europe. At the same time, armed smugglers are transporting a large number of illegal migrants across the Mediterranean Sea and jihadists are constantly committing new terrorist attacks. It is proved that in Europe only the Ukrainian army has experience in conducting military operations with Russian troops, so it may be useful for a new defense association. Therefore, the political and military leadership of the country would benefit from proposing a military partnership for defense cooperation with EU member states to the Permanent Structured Cooperation on Security and Defense (PESCO), as Georgia has already done.

It has been characterized that, unlike the previous framework law, which was mainly declarative and consisted of only 12 articles, the adopted Law “On National Security of Ukraine” provides for a more precise regulation of the actions of the Ukrainian state to counter external and internal aggression. Determined exhaustive list and competence of state authorities and military formations responsible for this. These bodies form the security and defense sector.

In addition, the law was conceived as a framework, therefore, to realize the full potential of the law, work on other bills is required that will clarify and develop the ideas of the law on national security. To do this, you must adopt or amend the six laws. This is a new law on the SBU, the law on the creation of a committee of the Verkhovna Rada to control the SBU and intelligence agencies, the law on intelligence activities, the law on transparency of procurement in the field of security and defense, and amendments to the law on state secrets.