The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky signed the decree "On the decision of the Council of National Security and Defense of Ukraine dated August 11, 2021 "On the Strategy of the Economic Security of Ukraine for the period until 2025". This is reported on the website of the head of state.
The Strategy notes that the national interests of Ukraine are the sustainable development of the national economy, the country's integration into the European economic space, and the development of equal, mutually beneficial economic cooperation with other states.
According to the document, the strategic course in the field of economic security has two interrelated directions: development and security.
In the direction of security, an important place is occupied by the challenges connected with the armed aggression of the Russian Federation and the temporary occupation of part of the territory of Ukraine. Thus, the Strategy notes that the destruction of the economy of Ukraine is a conscious and purposeful action of the Russian Federation and one of the methods of hybrid warfare, since the destroyed economy leads to dissatisfaction with the authorities, labor migration, social tension in society and undermines trust in the authorities. At the same time, economic instruments of influence are widely used, which include, for example, sanctions against Ukrainian goods and services and the use of influence on other countries in order to make decisions that contradict the main national economic interests of Ukraine.
The strategy also takes into account the main challenges and threats in the sphere of economic, financial, production, foreign economic, investment-innovation and macroeconomic security of the state.
Among the tasks are ensuring resistance to external and internal challenges and threats, preserving and developing the economic power of the country, as well as ensuring the economic independence of Ukraine and the ability to protect national economic interests, in particular in the high-tech sphere.
The strategy assumes the observance of critical limits and target orientations in the main components of the country's economic security. Constant monitoring of the level of these critical limits should be carried out, and decisions that would lead to the exit of economic safety indicators beyond these limits should not be allowed.
The result of the implementation of the Strategy should be, in particular, the creation of a stable, competitive, socially responsible market economy and conditions for the advanced development of the country's scientific and technical potential, sustainable growth of national wealth and production factors; achieving the goals of sustainable development of Ukraine for the period until 2030, the standard of living of the population, typical of economically developed countries. Ukraine must occupy a place in the world division of labor that corresponds to its natural, labor and intellectual resources, economic and geopolitical potential.
