Selected problems of threats to the administration and the state in the context of the Russian-Ukrainian war in 2022

Abstract

The paper focuses on the status of public administration, which is increasingly taking over
the competences of other authorities in providing basic security for citizens. The issue here are not
violations of the constitution or laws, which need to be discussed separately, but to point out that,
even with formal respect for the separation of powers, we are facing profound changes that must be
resilient to the state crisis. The recent accumulation of the policy of force points to a threat to the
existing paradigm of public administration, and academic reflection and analysis of legal norms do
not always sufficiently capture the danger of another world war. The study draws conclusions on the
greatest dangers to firmly maintaining the systemic foundations of the separation of powers in a democratic
state of law. The main dysfunctions in the development of the Ukrainian public administration,
forced to choose between freedom and sovereignty and the lives of its citizens, were also identified.
In this context, the issues of information policy and the consequences of the rapid development of
information technology using the destruction of the population according to the so-called “Syrian
model” are also shown. Due to the dynamics of the warfare and the impossibility to verify much of
the information at the scene, the author relied heavily on films posted on the internet, information
presented by the Ukrainian authorities and information from the war refugees themselves. Some
of the information has been compiled from US Department of Defence (Pentagon) press releases.