national consciousness.

The article offers various definitions of 'Ukraine’s information space' and highlights its crucial role in national security, particularly in safeguarding the information and psychological well-being of individuals, society, and the state. It delves into the socio-informational nature of gonzo journalism, a novel form of mass media, and examines how it operates within Ukraine’s information landscape. The piece underscores the interconnectedness of gonzo journalism and the information space amid intense anti-Ukrainian information warfare and the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian conflict.

The issues of the nation's phenomenon are covered, in particular, the definitions of this concept prevailing in modern legal science. The opinion is expressed that they are reduced to some of its most common meanings as identical to the concept of the population of the state; as an ethno-social community characterized by the inseparable unity of socio-economic and cultural characteristics; as all citizens of the state, regardless of their (national or social) origin, language and / or religion.