STATE TERRORISM - DEFINITIONS AND MANIFESTATIONS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE RUSSIAN-UKRAINIAN WAR

Abstract

. The article examines national and international law in the context of interpreting the concept of terrorist state. Eleven criteria of the 1987 Geneva Declaration on Terrorism, which explain such a phenomenon as terrorist state, were analyzed. It was proved that the actions of modern Russia toward Ukraine fully correspond to all eleven criteria of the 1987 Geneva Declaration on Terrorism.

It was demonstrated that Moscow’s bombing of civilian targets in Syria, Chechnya shows that russia’s way of war and bombing of civilian targets was meant to inflict terror on the general population and beat it into submission. The same way of war “Putin’s regime” tries to apply to Ukraine. It was refuted the thesis of Permanent Representative of Ukraine to the United Nations Sergiy Kyslytsya which he expressed on January 2, 2024 during the interview to the American television and radio organization Voice of America that the russian way of war in Ukraine is complete terrorism that brings death and destruction.