| Summary: | The purpose of the article is to investigate topical security problems in the Carpathian region in the context of the hybrid war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine. The research methodology is based on the general scientific principles of historicism, objectivity, system approach, the study of events, in particular their origin and development, interconnection, interdependence and complexity. The author states that Russia’s aggression against Ukraine has become a real challenge to stability and peace in Europe. It has exposed vulnerabilities both in the security and defense sectors of Ukraine, the EU and the US, NATO, and in the international security system as a whole. That is why the Ukrainian-Russian interstate confrontation should be viewed through the prism of an exacerbation of the global and regional international situation. The annexation of the Crimea and Russian aggression in eastern Ukraine haveshaken the region of Central and Eastern Europe. Despite the fact that the countriesof the Carpathian region are now part of the European Union and the North Atlantic Alliance, Moscow’s brutal behavior and disregard for the basic principles of international law made the states of the region feel threatened, not least because they view the political security in Ukraine as an element of the security architecture of the entire Carpathian region. That is why the states of the region condemned Russia’s aggression against Ukraine and supported the territorial integrity of our state. The aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine has created an evergrowing security and hybrid threat to Central and Eastern Europe. It is known that Russia is a skilled master in the use of hybrid aggression, and it is this fact that threatens the issue of peace and security in the entire Carpathian region. The need to resist the aggressive policy of the Russian Federation that through hybrid instruments can destabilize the internal situation in the countries of the Carpathian region necessitates the search for new models ...
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