BUSINESS STRUCTURES OF TERRITORIAL COMMUNITIES OF UKRAINE UNDER THE CONDITIONS OF THE MARITAL STATE: PROBLEMS OF FUNCTIONING

Abstract

The article is devoted to studying the state of business structures of Ukrainian territorial communities, in which they found themselves due to large-scale Russian aggression against Ukraine. The article aims to analyze the conditions and identify the problems of functioning of business structures of territorial communities in wartime conditions. The state of Ukrainian business provision with the essential production resources, human, material, and financial resources in particular, which determine the possibilities not only of its survival but also of practical work to secure or resuscitate the economy and social sphere of territorial communities in conditions of war, is analyzed. The population displacement trends within the country and abroad, as well as the employment of internally displaced persons, are characterized. The total losses of the state territorial communities' economy from the damage to the infrastructure as a result of military actions are analyzed. The trends of the leading indicators of local budgets, particularly the amount and structure of income and expenses, are determined. The experience of business relocation from the places of active hostilities to territorial communities in relatively safe regions of the state and the experience of restoring the relocated business structures are summarized. It is emphasized that among the main problems of the business functioning of territorial communities of Ukraine in wartime conditions are: limited material resources, lack of qualified personnel and working capital, inflation and devaluation, in particular, the rise in prices for raw materials, the destruction of business and partnership ties, and problems with logistics, a drop in solvent demand on the market. In the conditions of the military economy, a working business must provide the owners' income and the employees' payment. Most importantly, it provides the income of the state budget and the budgets of territorial communities of various levels, which allows to solve such vital problems as the financial capacity of millions of Ukrainian citizens and the preservation of solvent demand of domestic market, the financial capacity of territorial communities to quickly resolve the most important socio-economic issues, in particular in terms of ensuring the operation of critical infrastructure facilities, and the financial ability of the state to accumulate and concentrate funds to support the armed forces of Ukraine, ensure social benefits and national socio-economic stability.