Today, the issue of collaborationism, its concepts, features and types, limits of legal responsibility of collaborators, etc. are of particular importance in Ukraine, given the ongoing occupation of part of its sovereign territories, which occurred with the beginning of Russian aggression combined with hybrid methods of warfare. At the same time, the phenomenon of collaborationism, being quite carefully considered in the works of historians, is still insufficiently studied in legal science. Although the problem has been consistently in the spotlight of Ukrainian experts and government officials, it has not even come close to a proper solution. This is evidenced by the lack of a clear and verified position of lawyers on the applied approaches to the legal response to the behaviour of Ukrainian citizens living in the occupied territories, cooperating with the occupying state, the need to change them and determine agreed principles of legal influence on such persons.

 The aim of the article is to review the problem of collaborationism as a modern phenomenon that arose and continues to exist in connection with the occupation of part of the territory of Ukraine in the criminal law discourse.

 It has been established that some Ukrainian lawyers, who have considered in their works one or another criminal law aspect of collaborationism, have not yet come close to solving key issues arising from the need to improve the legal mechanism for combating encroachments on state and military security. It is emphasized that the lack of consensus and credibility in the selected methods of such improvement, as well as the lack of a model based on scientifically sound conclusions of regulation of collaboration, can complicate the long-term process of deoccupation of Ukraine.

The criminal law issues of collaborationism have a significant potential for its further deeper scientific development, which will overcome the gaps in the science of criminal law in this area and gain new theoretical and practical achievements. First, the relevant developments are important from the standpoint of full implementation of the prognostic function performed by modern criminal law science (as the experience of Ukraine shows, the subordinate attitude to this function with the emergence of collaborationism led to confusion and chaos of scientific opinions, inability to formulate effective scientific and practical recommendations). Early prediction of changes in the legal regulation relevant sphere of relations should help to minimize conflicting knowledge, and as a result, quickly and efficiently solving complex research issues.

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