Maksym Dyomin, legal analyst, chief lawyer of the regional project of the Institute for Legislative Ideas, gave an interview on HIT in the project ‘Volyn on Guard. Together to Victory!’.

In international law, there is the ‘2nd Hague Convention’ of 1907, which regulates the issue of declaring war.

‘In this case, we understand that in fact Russia and Putin's henchmen do not call it a war... they call it a special operation,’ said Maksym Dyomin.

Ukraine has introduced the legal regime of martial law because we are defending ourselves.

‘The defending state must actually introduce this regime to accumulate all human, financial, material resources - any resources - and thus keep the defence,’ explained the legal analyst.