CHALLENGES OF ENVIRONMENTAL CULTURE AS A COMPONENT OF LEGAL CULTURE DURING COMBAT ACTIONS

The article examines the relationship between the concepts of «ecological culture», «legal culture», «state», «society», «ecocide», «war», which during the conduct of hostilities and martial law require an analysis of the concept of «ecological culture» not through a part of general human culture, and as a component of legal culture precisely through the prism of norms of national and international law. It is noted that ecological culture as a component of legal culture reflects the relationship of the state and society to the natural environment, emphasizes the relationship between culture, law and the natural environment, their influence on each other. It has been proven that the basis of the ecological culture of modern society is ecological and legal awareness, which, in our opinion, plays an important role in preventing and eliminating global environmental challenges to humanity caused by the state of war and the conduct of hostilities on the territory of Ukraine. It is emphasized that the formation of human ecological culture in the conditions of war is a factor in the development of social relations in the sense of ensuring the human right to a safe environment and free access to environmental information, the security of the state as a whole and compensation for the damage caused by this right, resulting from legal norms, tolerance of sub objects of environmental and legal relations, sent to protect national security and the integrity of the state. It has been proven that ecological culture is a unique social value, is reflected in the general culture of the individual, the population and the country, is a reflection of the legal culture, the legal dimension, as its content is reflected in the Constitution of Ukraine and regulatory legal acts. And ecological-legal culture should be studied as an independent phenomenon that arises at the junction of ecological and legal culture, under the influence of not just ecological consciousness, but ecological legal consciousness. It is noted that the application of the legal approach to the definition of the «concept of ecological culture as a component of legal culture» makes it possible to apply legal norms, methods and directions, which will generally increase its level and significance, improve the regulation of social relations in terms of achieving justice and bringing ecocriminals to justice. It has been proven that the challenges of ecological culture as a component of legal culture in the conditions of martial law and the conduct of hostilities on the territory of Ukraine are a violation of the ecosystem on a planetary level, the cruelty and uncompromising nature of which can only be compared to the Second World War. All crimes committed by Russia must be analyzed and accounted for in order to achieve justice in the future by proving the fact of ecocide and bringing the perpetrators to justice. The research methodology is based on the definition of the conceptual and categorical apparatus of the research, includes the justification of its theoretical foundations, analysis and systematization of the available experience, includes the analysis of publications devoted to the considered problem in printed publications and Internet resources.