State policy in protection of the population in wartime

The paper is devoted to the legal analysis of the transformation of the state policy of the Russian Federation in the field of population protection in wartime. The study focuses on the main prerequisites for reforming the civil defense system since the 1990s. The author considers modern problems of the development of civil defense taking into account the experience of the SMO. Today, when there is a SMO and military operations affect not only the border, but also the regions of Russia in the depths of the territory, the question is objectively posed: how much does the civil defense of Russia corresponds to its purpose — the protection of the population, material and cultural values in wartime. A characteristic feature of modern military conflict between states is the lack of a common understanding of the procedures for transition to the state of war. At the same time, the likelihood of military conflicts in a classic form with a typical structure and stages of development remains. In this case, there will be such components of the civil defense as the threatened period, the transfer of the system from peacetime to wartime, the introduction of martial law and the use of civil defense and population protection plans, etc. The author justifies the need to introduce into the set of civil defense measures elements of active protection of industrial facilities from unmanned aerial vehicles, using as a legal basis the regulations of the FSB of Russia on the adoption of a decision to suppress the functioning of unmanned aerial, underwater and surface vessels and vehicles.

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