RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE CAUSED DURING THE ARMED CONFLICT BETWEEN UKRAINE AND THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION: OPPORTUNITIES IN THE ALGORITHM OF PROTECTING NATIONAL INTERESTS

Authors

  • M. O. Medvedieva Institute of International Relations of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv
  • T. R. Korotkyi National University ‘Odesa Law Academy’

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17721/apmv.2019.139..57-67

Abstract

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 current
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proceedings against Russia in international courts and the scope of environmental harm caused as a result of the Russian aggression against Ukraine.
Keywords: environmental damage, armed conflict, state responsibility, individual criminal responsibility, Crimea, eastern Ukraine.

Author Biographies

  • M. O. Medvedieva , Institute of International Relations of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

    Doctor of Law, Professor at the International Law Chair of the

  • T. R. Korotkyi, National University ‘Odesa Law Academy’

    PhD., Professor at the Department of International and European Law 

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Published

2020-01-27

Issue

No. 139 (2019): ACTUAL PROBLEMS OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

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