INTERNATIONAL DIMENSION OF COMBATING MILITARY-AGGRESSIVE CRIME IN THE CONTEXT OF THE RUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN WAR: FROM DIPLOMACY TO CYBERSPACE PROTECTION

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the international dimension of 
countering military-aggressive crime in the context of the Russian-Ukrainian war. 
Promising preventive measures are identified and characterized in the areas of: 1) 
deepening cooperation within existing international security projects and the 
creation of new military alliances to repel the aggression of the Russian Federation; 2) diplomatic pressure on the Russian Federation in order to induce 
its political leaders to stop armed aggression; 3) economic and legal pressure, 
including and in particular through the use of a wide arsenal of sanctions policy 
measures. The need to increase the effectiveness of the implementation of 
international justice mechanisms on issues of the international legal 
responsibility of the Russian state is emphasized. The importance of the decision 
of the European Court of Human Rights in the case “Ukraine and the Netherlands 
v. Russia” of 09.07.2025 in the case of combating military-aggressive crime in the 
future is substantiated. 
The importance of specifying partner (Ukraine and its international 
partners) cooperation in the cyberspace is substantiated in the direction of 
strengthening the capabilities to block cyberattacks, which in the context of an 
armed conflict and given their focus on civilian objects acquire signs of military 
cybercrimes. This is a way to increase defense capabilities in critical areas 
The peculiarities of the implementation of repressive and preventive 
measures in the system of international criminal justice are studied. The need to 
increase the effectiveness of the International Criminal Court is emphasized. The 
article focuses on Ukraine's claim, as a full member of the ICC, to objectify the 
activities of the ICC Prosecutor's Office, to involve V. V. Putin himself as a suspect 
in the commission of the most serious war crimes, crimes against humanity, and 
genocide. The article examines the optimal models of an ad hoc international 
criminal tribunal for the crime of aggression against Ukraine.