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“Pravova derzhava”. Issue 36 (2025), pages 586–595.

DOI: 10.33663/0869-2491-2025-36-586-595

Ternavska Anastasia
Elemental and structural analysis of war and war related terrorism crimes in the field of radioecological safety

Extended Abstract. The article provides a description and explanation of the content of criminal offenses in the field of radioecological safety under criminal law and their system. The functioning of this system, both in times of peace and war, as well as its integrity and organic unity, is characterized by new features resulting from the interaction and interrelation of its constituent elements: separate norms of criminal law which should aim at solving particular and specific special tasks related to ensuring radioecological safety through the regulation of liability for committing both ordinary criminal offenses and war crimes; universal international treaties in this area; regulatory legal acts on radioecological safety referenced in the blanket dispositions of the criminal law norms in this category. The elemental and structural analysis performed, along with ordinary criminal offenses, distinguished war crimes and war-related crimes, which are presented in two groups of norms of criminal law on: a) war crimes encroaching on radioecological safety: war crimes involving attacks on nuclear power plants (Part 1 of Article 438 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, referencing Article 56 of the Additional Protocol (I) to the Geneva Conventions of 1949); Article 439 («Use of Weapons of Mass Destructio») and Article 440 («Development, Production, Acquisition, Storage, Sale, or Transportation of Weapons of Mass Destruction») of the Criminal Code of Ukraine, concerning the use of nuclear weapons (as a type of weapon of mass destruction) and other related actions such as their development, production, etc.; b) crimes of nuclear military terrorism in connection with the threat to use nuclear weapons. The author presents arguments in favor of the need for a specific prohibition of nuclear military terrorism under criminal law, and in this connection proposes amendments and additions to Article 439 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. 

Key words: criminal offenses in the field of radioecological safety, war crimes, nuclear terrorism, system, classification, criminal law norms, criminal liability, Criminal Code of Ukraine.

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