The urgency of the study is due to the intensification of the processes of formation of ethnopolitical resilience in the Russian-Ukrainian war. In the third stage of the war, the full-scale Russian invasion, military aggression met the fierce resistance and the unprecedented resilience of the consolidated polyethnic political Ukrainian nation.
Therefore, the aim of the paper is to clarify and deepen the proposed definition of the concept of ethnopolitical resilience and reveal its potential in counteracting Russian military aggression. The research methodology is based on monitoring of current events and systematic approach to understanding the concept of ethnopolitical resilience as an integral part of the national resilience system.
Russia's full-scale military aggression was aimed at denazifying and demilitarizing Ukraine, but had the opposite effect: consolidating the Ukrainian nation, massive support for the Armed Forces, deploying a volunteer movement, and rallying around effective countering the military threat. Even the unarmed Ukrainian population, openly exposed to the danger of physical destruction, resists Russian aggression by all available means. The notion of resilience has become a major factor in security and defense decision-making, as the Ukrainian case demonstrates that civilians' willingness to resist the aggressor is no less crucial than state cooperation with allies or military capability.
Since 2014, during the Russian-Ukrainian war, ethnopolitical resilience has been formed as an integral feature of the ethnopolitical system of Ukraine, which consists in: 1) anticipating, detecting, preventing and counteracting hybrid and conventional threats; 2) turning them into an internal resource / impetus for further development, which mobilizes all components of the system to achieve a common goal; 3) counteraction, resistance to full-scale military aggression by the Russian Federation and preservation / restoration of the territorial integrity of Ukraine.
Ethnopolitical resilience has received scientific justification and has become a full-fledged component of the national system of resilience in practice, therefore it should find legal consolidation in political and legal documents. In the conditions of the Russian-Ukrainian war, ethnopolitical resilience draws its internal resource from the full participation and self-sacrifice of all ethnic communities in the defense of Ukraine, which have united into a consolidated political nation. Without ethnopolitical resilience, the national system of stability will not fully and comprehensively reflect the essence of this phenomenon, thanks to which Ukraine resists aggression and wins in the Russian-Ukrainian war, having much less material and human resources than the aggressor state.
Therefore, it is recommended to make changes to the Concept of ensuring the national system of resilience (2021) in terms of adding a subsystem of ethnopolitical resilience. Ethnopolitical resilience as a guarantee of the preservation of the Ukrainian state, the Ukrainian nation, should be defined as one of the principles of ethnic politics of Ukraine in a political and legal document that will regulate such principles (Concepts or Strategies of ethnonational politics), which will contribute to realization of the potential of ethnopolitical resilience at this stage of state formation.
