State structure and ethnopolitical resilience of Ukraine: historical retrospective and political impacts

The proclamation of independence of Ukraine is an example of the realization of the right to self-determination in a way that was absolutely consistent with the legal field that existed at that time. As a result, Ukraine faced risks: the emergence of internal disintegration processes that had a distinct ethnopolitical connotation. Ethnopolitical resilience is a component of the national (state) resilience of Ukraine. The state structure is one of the main factors of the country's resistance to internal and external challenges. Therefore, the risks to the state structure are also the risks to Ukraine's ethnopolitical resilience. Attempts to change the state structure have always been based on ethnopolitical factors and aimed at creating within the state administrative-territorial units with a special status or complete transformation of Ukraine into a federal state. Such a state structure, according to the true plans of the authors of such projects, was supposed to weaken the stability of Ukraine as much as possible. After the conclusion of the Russian-Ukrainian war and the de-occupation of ALL Ukrainian territories, the state system should not contain an entity with a special status (republic, region, district, etc.).