The article deals with the issues concerning Ukraine`s criminal legal policy at the current stage. The author underlines that the policy of crime combating is one of the kinds of any state`s policy. Criminal legal policy is one of the elements of the crime combating state policy and it is criminal legal policy that defines the boundaries of criminal and not criminal. Thus it can be affirmed that criminal law is the result of this policy realization at the certain level. The author comes to the conclusion that criminal legal policy of every state is unique. And this uniqueness is associated with a number of factors, both of relatively static and dynamic character. The so-called static factors that are relatively stable include the certain national historical and cultural traditions of the respective people, the dominating religion, climatic conditions, the main spheres of economy, providing the lion`s share of the gross revenues of state, the state system, the dominant ideology, the geopolitical location of state. The dynamic factors are not stable in their essence, they change situationally, although they can last for a relatively long time, but they can`t lead to the essential, strategic changes in state criminal legal policy. At the same time, depending on their social significance and scale, they can determine certain corrections to criminal legal policy as well, so that it would be wrong to ignore them. If concerning the static factors that influence the formation of Ukraine`s criminal legal policy at the present stage, everything is more or less clear in that respect that they are known, the dynamic factors in their turn require to be defined separately. With the latter factors, which today determine the amendments to the Criminal Code of Ukraine, can be associated the following ones: – the economic and political instability of contemporary society; – military aggression in the East of Ukraine, actual loss of control over the certain territories; – using criminal law as means of struggle with political opponents and political amnesty; – European integration processes taking place in Ukraine, which in its turn requires aligning the legislation with international standards requirements; – case-law of the European Court of Human Rights; – the increase in the level of corruption lawbreakings in different spheres; – the emergence of new or the sufficient increase in social danger of the existing infringements. This is definitely a hardly exhaustive list of dynamic factors, which influence the formation of Ukraine`s contemporary criminal legal policy. After all, it can`t be exhaustive, as far as by their very definition, the dynamic factors are changing. At the same time, it is these factors that are the sufficient circumstances influencing the content of Ukraine`s criminal legal policy, as far as a number of amendments to the Criminal Code of Ukraine are associated with them. Considering the provided analysis of contemporary state of Ukraine`s criminal legal policy, the author substantiates that at present time it can be characterized as the policy of transitional period, influenced mostly by the instable negative factors of both external and internal character. At the same time, the chosen and systematically continued Ukraine`s course towards European integration, broadening international cooperation with foreign experts, creating the really effective commission on reforming criminal legislation provide confidence to conclude that the new Criminal Code of Ukraine will reflect the latest achievements of legal science and will be based on the international standards and stabilizing factors of criminal legal policy of Ukraine as the European State.