Respecting Children's Rights when Going Abroad of Ukraine under the Conditions of Marital Law

The article was examined key issues related to the legal regulation of children, orphans and children deprived of parental care leaving Ukraine and analyzed the activities of state-authorized bodies aimed at ensuring compliance with the legislation on children's rights, regardless of their legal status, under martial law.

The conducted research concerns such problematic aspects as the legality of a child crossing the border with one of the parents, unaccompanied by the parents; forced evacuation; the return of Ukrainian children taken to the temporarily occupied territories or, in general, to the territory of russia; carrying out the necessary control over the observance of the rights and interests of a child who left Ukraine and went to live temporarily in another country or in the family of foreign citizens and many other important tasks.

Attention has been drawn to cases where men of conscription age have the right to cross the Ukrainian border without hindrance.

Despite a certain number of problematic aspects of this issue, such as, for example, the uncertainty of the legal status of the parents, and therefore the legal status of the child; the risk of relatives abusing their rights, including their lack of intention to return the child to Ukraine, the simplified mechanism for crossing the state border by Ukrainian children, played an important role, creating conditions for moving children outside of Ukraine, especially from those territories where (and ongoing) active hostilities.

Attention has been drawn to cases where men of conscription age have the right to cross the Ukrainian border without hindrance.

Despite a certain number of problematic aspects of this issue, such as, for example, the uncertainty of the legal status of the parents, and therefore the legal status of the child; the risk of relatives abusing their rights, including their lack of intention to return the child to Ukraine, the simplified mechanism for crossing the state border by Ukrainian children, played an important role, creating conditions for moving children outside of Ukraine, especially from those territories where (and ongoing) active hostilities.