Specyfika funkcjonowania instytucji Prezydenta w Ukrainie w kontekście rozpoczęcia pełnowymiarowej inwazji Federacji Rosyjskiej (24 lutego – 14 kwietnia 2022 r.)

Abstract

This article is one of the first attempts to launch a national research aimed at understanding the activities of state authorities under extreme conditions of war. It aims primarily to identify and analyse the features of the functioning of the institution of the presidency in Ukraine during the first 50 days of the full-scale Russian aggression against Ukraine. Looking through the prism of the synergetic paradigm, using a number of research methods (real-time analysis of events, phenomena and processes, content analysis and comparative analysis) and based on the study of a number of documents (decrees, orders) approved by the signature of the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky and analysing the dominant ideas uttered by him in numerous speeches and addresses, proclaimed during the hostilities conducted on the territory of the Ukrainian state, marked by the crimes committed by the Russian aggressor, the following was identified: • a time of transformation of the institution of the presidency, which is usually seen as a result of the autonomy of the incumbent president; • the effectiveness of the institution as a centre for making political decisions in times of war in the face of increasing instability and imbalance of processes and phenomena both in the Ukrainian state and in the political environment of Europe and the world; • the ability of the institution to cooperate (with other institutions of state power, the people, and the international community) and to a high degree of self-organisation in times of war.