STRUCTURAL PECULIARITIES OF CONDUCTING FOREIGN ECONOMIC ACTIVITY OF UKRAINE'S REGIONS UNDER CONDITIONS OF WAR

Economic and political situation existing nowadays in Ukraine and revolutionary and military actions of the last years have brought dynamical changes in the general structure of state economy, and, in particular, in the sphere of its regions' of foreign economic activity. Therefore, the article analyzes peculiarities of development of foreign economic activity in Ukrainian regions during 2013-2015 and evaluates influence of Russia's military aggression on development of their foreign trade relations. For the examined period the reorientation of Ukrainian regions' export vector and transition from usual sales markets to the new ones were detected. It is found that in the midst of general reduction of Ukrainian goods' export the import also experienced essential drop during 2013-2015. The factors that caused reduction of foreign economic activity in all Ukrainian regions without exception are examined and analyzed. Major problems of Ukrainian regions' of foreign economic relations development that emerged due to the change of structural proportions in their foreign trade are defined. On the basis of analysis results the recommendations concerning overcoming of detected problems and regulating of structural disparities of foreign economic relations development in Ukrainian regions are proposed.