Open AccessRESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE CAUSED DURING THE ARMED CONFLICT BETWEEN UKRAINE AND THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION: OPPORTUNITIES IN THE ALGORITHM OF PROTECTING NATIONAL INTERESTS
Author(s) -
Maryna Medvedieva,
Tymur R. Korotkyi
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
aktualʹnì problemi mìžnarodnih vìdnosin
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2663-8959
pISSN - 2308-6912
DOI - 10.17721/apmv.2019.139.0.58-67
Subject(s) - harm , international law , state responsibility , political science , state (computer science) , law , international humanitarian law , scope (computer science) , environmental law , responsibility to protect , human rights , russian federation , armed conflict , criminal responsibility , criminal law , sociology , algorithm , regional science , computer science , programming language
The article considers international customs, treaties and case-law dealing with responsibility for wartime environmental damage and protection of the environment before, during and after armed conflict. The authors provide the analysis of the rules of state responsibility, international humanitarian, criminal, environmental, human rights law, law of the sea, applicable in this field. The article examines the regime of international legal protection of the environment in relation to Ukraine-Russia armed conflict (in Crimea and eastern Ukraine) and analyzes the possibility of invoking responsibility of Russia as a state and imposing individual criminal responsibility for the damage caused to the environment in the course of this conflict. With this view the authors provide the overview of currentActual problems of international relations. Release 139. 201958proceedings against Russia in international courts and the scope of environmental harm caused as a result of the Russian aggression against Ukraine.