ANALYSIS OF THE CONTENT AND ESSENCE OF MASS DISTURBANCE AS AN OBJECT OF TERMINATION BY UNITS OF THE NATIONAL GUARD OF UKRAINE

Abstract

The article analyzes the content and essence of mass riots as an object of suppression by units of the National Guard of Ukraine. The positions and opinions of scientists and researchers regarding mass riots as a social phenomenon, an illegal act and as an object of termination by the National Guard of Ukraine were studied. The author proves the position that, in the modern sense, mass riots are not only a social phenomenon, but first of all a criminally punishable act. At the same time, from the point of view of the need to stop them by the National Guard of Ukraine, this social manifestation is characterized by a system of other criteria, which in turn does not exclude the illegality and high public danger of the corresponding actions, which determines the need for immediate response by law enforcement agencies to these processes. It has been proven that the content and essence of the powers of the National Guard of Ukraine in general and the servicemen of individual units and units determine the normative possibility and objective obligations to stop mass riots on the territory of Ukraine, thus fragmenting the need to stop a mass riot as an act of illegal behavior and the need for further pre-trial investigation of such actions by other subjects of law enforcement agencies. The conclusion was reached that the essence of a mass riot consists in the organized commission of actions directed against public order and morality, accompanied by violence, pogroms, arson, destruction of property, seizure of buildings or structures, forcible eviction of citizens, resistance to representatives of the authorities with the use of weapons. The prospect of further scientific research is the need for a more detailed study of the powers of the National Guard of Ukraine to stop mass riots under the conditions of the legal regime of martial law in Ukraine.