The issue of ensuring the legal protection of the economy for the Ukrainian state was oneof the key issues, along with such issues as territorial integrity, sovereignty of the authorities,
ensuring real defense capability, etc. It is worth agreeing with the view of L. Korchevskaya, who
argues that the economic aspect of security is closely linked to trade relations that have been
traced throughout human history [1, p. 38], which undoubtedly could not bypass Ukraine, given
its territorial location, the availability of many tangible and intangible resources and existing
trade and financial ties. At the same time, as historical experience has shown, the inability to
develop a fully-fledged and comprehensive, self-interest legal system, owing to frequent changes
in territorial structure and the frequent objective need to subordinate the will of certain other
entities, significantly hindered the development