INTERACTION OF THE SECURITY SERVICE OF UKRAINE AND THE DEPARTMENT OF THE STATE PROTECTION OF UKRAINE IN ENSURING THE NATIONAL SECURITY OF UKRAINE

Introduction. The Security Service of Ukraine and the Department of the State Protection of Ukraine play a special role in ensuring the national security of Ukraine. Accordingly, the question of their high-quality and effective interaction in the performance of assigned tasks, taking into account real and potential threats and challenges, is becoming more and more urgent, especially during a full-scale russian-Ukrainian war and confrontation. Purpose. The purpose of the article is to study the legal aspects and peculiarities of the interaction of the Security Service of Ukraine and the Department of the State Protection of Ukraine in ensuring the national security of Ukraine. Materials and methods. The research materials are: 1) literature related to the national security of Ukraine, the interaction of the Security Service of Ukraine and the Department of the State Protection of Ukraine in ensuring the national security of Ukraine; 2) The Constitution and laws of Ukraine, as well as normative acts, which form the legal basis of the activity of the Security Service of Ukraine, the implementation of state protection of Ukraine and regulate issues in the sphere of national security of Ukraine. Both general scientific and special methods are used in the research process: formal-legal, comparative-legal. Results. It has been established that the basis for the organization and implementation of cooperation between the Security Service of Ukraine and the Department of the State Protection of Ukraine in ensuring national security is: a common understanding of the plan or problem, a common understanding of the content of the tasks and the ways of their implementation, joint development of basic documents according to the purpose, joint definition of implementation directions and spheres of responsibility for special operations (actions, measures) and proper control over their implementation in accordance with requirements. The experience in the field of security and defense acquired during russia's war against Ukraine, as well as high-quality legal and organizational principles are important here. It is noted that, taking into account the current threats and challenges, when improving the legal acts of the Security Service of Ukraine and the Department of the State Protection of Ukraine, it is necessary to take into account the conditions of wartime and possible scenarios of the emergence and development of other situations of a military nature. High-quality and effective interaction between the Security Service of Ukraine and the Department of the State Protection of Ukraine is an important factor in successfully countering russian crimes and other threats. It is substantiated that in order to coordinate the interaction between the Office of the State Security of Ukraine and the Security Service of Ukraine in ensuring the national security of Ukraine at the legislative level, a new provision should be added to Article 10 of the Law of Ukraine “On State Security of State Authorities of Ukraine and Officials” (similarly to Article 17 of the Law of Ukraine “On the Security Service of Ukraine”), namely: “The Department of the State Protection of Ukraine interacts with the Security Service of Ukraine, law enforcement and customs authorities in the manner and on the basis determined by laws, decrees of the President of Ukraine and acts of the Department of the State Protection of Ukraine adopted on their basis and the relevant department”. Prospects. In the future, it is expedient to investigate the activities of the courts and the prosecutor's office of Ukraine in the system of state control over legality in the implementation of the state protection of Ukraine.