FORMS OF COMPENSATION FOR DAMAGE CAUSED AS A RESULT OF INTERNATIONAL MILITARY CONFLICT: REALITIES AND PERSPECTIVES OF NATIONAL LEGISLATION AND INTERNATIONAL LAW

УДК 347.1

ORCID: 0000-0003-4360-0287

DOI 10.37566/2707-6849-2024-3(48)-1

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Vitalii MAKHINCHUK,

Doctor of legal sciences, professor, Deputy Director of the The Academician F.H. Burchak Scientific Research Institute of Private Law and Entrepreneurship of National Academy of Law Sciences of Ukraine

FORMS OF COMPENSATION FOR DAMAGE CAUSED AS A RESULT OF INTERNATIONAL MILITARY CONFLICT: REALITIES AND PERSPECTIVES OF NATIONAL LEGISLATION AND INTERNATIONAL LAW

The article presents a scientific and practical analysis of the current regulatory and legal regulation, judicial practice in the field of compensation for property damage caused as a result of the armed aggression of the Russian Federation from February 26, 2022. In particular, options for the possible application of contributions and reparations as forms of compensation for damage caused as a result of the Russian Federation's military aggression against Ukraine are analyzed. The author critically analyzes the modern international legal mechanism for collecting compensation for damage caused as a result of military aggression, neither the public-law plane nor the private-law plane currently possess the necessary tools to achieve the above-mentioned goal. Existing mechanisms are quite complicated due to the presence of additional requirements and/or procedures. The author concludes that there is a need for a fundamental change in the approach to the essence of compensation payments and the compensation mechanism itself. Corresponding payments of the aggressor, which de facto are collected in international practice upon the fact of victory, cannot be considered adequate compensation. Needs a change in emphasis and approaches to such payments; the aggressor must pay after committing the aggression itself. The normative acts of the USA and Canada regarding the possibility of forced recovery of assets from the country of the aggressor in the presence of relevant grounds and decisions of authorized bodies and officials are built on other principles – namely, they can be applied by virtue of the act of aggression itself.

Key words: military aggression of the Russian Federation, war, contributions, reparations, compensation, indemnity, assets, grounds for civil liability, property.

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