The Russian-Ukrainian War Through the Prism of International Law and Hybrid Manifestations

Abstract

In the article the author enumerates violation of base documents of international law and bilateral Russian-Ukrainian agreements, which were carried out by Russian Federation in relation to Ukraine. Among them are not only the Budapest Memorandum, in which it, along with the United States and Great Britain, undertook to guarantee the security, territorial integrity and sovereignty in the existing borders of Ukraine, which has renounced nuclear weapons, but also a number of principles of international law, in particular: - Principle of refraining from the threat or use of force; - Principle of non-intervention in internal affairs of other state; - Principle of territorial integrity of states; - Principle of inviolability of frontiers; - Principle of conscientious implementation of international legal obligations. Russia violated the number of the bilateral Ukrainian-Russian agreements (from May 31, 1997, from April 21, 2010, from July 16, 1999). The article also analyzes the features of the "asymmetric war" or "hybrid war" of the Russian Federation, which turned out to be quite effective, and sometimes even an unexpected mixture of military and non-military, conventional and unconventional components, including all kinds of instruments. None of the separate components is new, it is the combination and coordination of different actions that are sudden and create ambiguity, which making an adequate response extremely difficult.