Threats to critical infrastructure: A study of transnational organized crime in Ukraine

The purpose of the article is to study the nature and content of threats to critical infrastructure facilities related to the activities of transnational organized criminal groups. In the course of the research, the following scientific methods were used: historical, monographic, logical, dogmatic, normative analyses, system and structural, legal modelling, prognostic, summarization. The conceptual apparatus and criteria for classification of threats to state security, proposed in the scientific literature and relevant legal instruments are considered. The authors’ definition of the concept of “threats to critical infrastructure facilities related to the activities of transnational organized criminal groups” is proposed. The threats to critical infrastructure facilities related to the activities of transnational organized criminal groups (according to the manifestation of the source of threat) are highlighted. Further prospective lines of research are indicated.