The article analyzes modern threats and challenges, faced by Ukraine under the conditions of russian military aggression, global security environment transformation, peculiarities of the Ukrainian security area and interstate security agreements significance. The prerequisites for the creation and implementation of mechanisms to guarantee security for Ukraine by the EU and NATO are identified. The concept, content and features of security agreements are revealed. The preferences and bonuses for Ukraine as a result of signing bilateral agreements on security guarantees with NATO member states are defined. The article covers such aspects of security agreements as:increasing Ukraine’s resilience and strengthening its military capacities; russia’s political and legal responsibility for aggression and providing humanitarian aid to Ukrainians. The author summarizes the security agreement structure, which is unified and provides for three main areas of cooperation: the military sphere, democratic transformation, and russia’s responsibility for aggression. It is regulated that within the framework of the security agreement implementation, Ukraine not only receives support but also undertakes the obligation to implement reforms in such areas as: justice, systemic fight against corruption, and modernization of the state economic sector. The risks that can be traced in the security agreement provisions are detailed. The author concludes that security agreements set out the directions of further security cooperation, areas of responsibility of the parties, volumes of assistance, assistance timeframes, conditions of military exercises, weapons, equipment, and ammunition transfer; and also indicates the further development of the Ukrainian defense industry, as well as the agreements being long-term, as they are signed for decades. Further ways of improving the security agreement implementation as an important guarantee of national security and its components are identified. The article summarizes that security agreements can become an additional impetus for further joint projects, even despite the legal regime of martial law.

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