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15 MANAGEMENT, PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND GOVERNANCE UDC 351.86:004.738.5:327(477) Andrii Lyubchenko PhD Public Administration doctoral student of the Department of Public Administration and Management State University of Information and Communication Technologies, Kyiv ORCID ID https: / /orcid.org/0009-0004-0246-7795 IMPROVEMENT OF DIRECTIONS OF SCIENTIFIC DIAGNOSTICS OF UKRAINE'S INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION POLICYAND VERIFICATION OF ITS RESULTS Problem statement. When determining the current state and main directions of Ukraine's international information policy during the Russian military aggression, attention should be paid to the change in the state's attitude to the essence of international information policy itself, primarily to its informational and substantive component, namely, the active participation of the state in the processes of creating, distributing and ensuring a sufficient level of presence of relevant information aimed at forming a positive image of the state and defending national interests in the domestic and global information space, effective counteraction to Russian propaganda, etc., which makes the need for a more effective international information policy extremely urgent. Analysis of recent research and publications. Recently, researchers in public administration have increasingly addressed the above problem. Among them, one can