GENOCIDE AS THE MOST SERIOUS INTERNATIONAL CRIME IN THE CONTEXT OF THE ARMED AGGRESSION OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the problems of bringing guilty persons to criminal responsibility for committing the genocide of the Ukrainian people in the context of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation. Genocide has been distinguished from related criminal offences. The international experience of identifying and combating this critically dangerous phenomenon was studied. Some of the latest manifestations of genocidal practices are identified, such as urbicide, identocide, populicide, the threat of using nuclear weapons.