СТРУКТУРНО-ФУНКЦІОНАЛЬНИЙ АНАЛІЗ БЕЗПЕКОВИХ АСПЕКТІВ ПОЛІТИКИ ЄВРОПЕЙСЬКОЇ ІНТЕГРАЦІЇ В УМОВАХ ПРОТИДІЇ РОСІЙСЬКІЙ АГРЕСІЇ В ГІБРИДНІЙ ВІЙНІ ПРОТИ УКРАЇНИ

Abstract

The general articulation of the issue and its connection with the important research and practice tasks. European integration of Ukraine directly concerns to the following aspects of the security policy of the state: military and political, economic, informational. All these spheres of public life are goals of the Russian aggression in the hybrid war against Ukraine.The article offers a structuring of the security issues of the policy of European integration of Ukraine in the conditions of counteraction to the Russian aggression in the hybrid war against Ukraine on the basis of the research work «Russian Aggression Against Ukraine: Public Administration Aspects of Counteraction in the Hybrid War».The analysis of the recent publications regarding the issues this article deals with; identification of parts of the general problem that have not been previously addressed. The numbers of leading domestic and foreign scholars have dedicated their research to this problem; it is shown through the analysis of relevant research and papers by such scholars, as O. Goncharenko, V. Horbulin, E. Solingen, E. Carter, R. Coen, O. Litvinenko, S. Pyrozhkov, G. Pocheptsov, S. Proskurin, I. Romanchenko, O. Sukhodolia, J. Snaider, V. Shamray, and others. At the same time, the scientific substantiation of the public administration aspects of counteraction to Russia in the «hybrid war» against Ukraine requires, in our opinion, more in-depth research and search of effective ways of solving the problem taking into consideration the European aspirations of Ukraine.The purpose (the objective) of this article. The need to find ways to improve public administration mechanisms of counteraction in the hybrid war against Ukraine, ensuring security in conditions of ambiguity of current changes, inability to accurately predict the development of events and strategies of key political actors in the future, highdynamism of transformations in institutions that must counteract the emergence of new threats, be adequate changes in geopolitical space and be able to function in the new conditions formed the goals of this publication.The key results and the background. Today, Ukraine needs to develop a conceptual vision of a comprehensive hybrid threat response based on the EU model. Protecting critical infrastructure is also important task (especially in a zone close to the area of hostilities) and should become one of the priorities of the state policy.In the external dimension, Ukraine should focus on preserving and strengthening international support and increasing international pressure on Russia in order to end its aggression.Conclusions and the prospects of the further research. Therefore, efforts for building Ukraine’s state capacity to confront hybrid threats are mainly related to the internal dimension: public administration reform, corruption eradication, consolidation of society, development of efficient economic and energy markets, implementation of balanced inter-ethnic and inter-confessional policies, wide public awareness of sensitive topics, including historical ones, which are used or can be used by the aggressor to achieve their goals. In the authors’ view, some effective measures could be proposed, namely:To develop a set of measures that would consist of actions in advance (both state and non-state experts might be involved; situational modeling was conducted on the basis of the Main Situation Center of Ukraine).To develop a plan of measures for compensation of losses of Ukraine as a result of the loss of a significant part of revenues from transport and energy transportation communications through the territory of Ukraine (even if nothing happens).It is necessary to intensify work of structures of the security sector of Ukraine towards identifying and tracking funding channels for political forces (especially from abroad). The fact is that for years the pro-Russian organizations of Crimea, Transcarpathia and Transnistria have received funding from the Russian World Foundation under the Russian government. Today, funding could be get from the Russian capital-related sources both from the Western sources, and from within the country.Activation of activities for imposing UN peacekeepers into the zone of the Ukrainian-Russian conflict. That is not plan of Kremlin for the nearest future, and destroys its strategy.