НАТО та світова пандемія: від невизначеності до плану дій

The global pandemic caused by the COVID-19 virus been raging in the world for almost two years. Undoubtedly, the pandemic has become an unprecedented challenge to the world and its consequences will continue to impact on life spheres of individual countries and policies pursued by international organizations, including the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. The issue of researching the impact of the global pandemic on NATO activities is absolutely new for both foreign and domestic scientists. Given the unprecedentedness of this level of pandemic, NATO was not ready to promptly counter the spread of this virus. However, it took Alliance leadership a short time to begin responding to the new challenge, led by NATO's Strategic Command Transformation. In the article, based on the analysis carried out, the following were determined: Priorities of the Alliance: the first is to ensure that the level of risk of virus infection of personnel is reduced; second, maintaining (maintaining) an appropriate level of work efficiency; third, gradual but persistent adaptation to new conditions; The main activities carried out and planned in NATO to combat the global challenge: institutional, related to changes in the procedures for making decisions at the strategic level at the level of heads of state and government; organizational, concerning changes in the practical plane of the Alliance's activities, including measures of education and training, joint military exercises, conducting operations and implementing planned rotations of deployed contingents; informational, covering both measures aimed at promptly and impartially informing the general public about the pandemic, and at countering the propaganda deployed by certain countries in order to discredit NATO as a single international organization capable of providing collective defense for its member countries. Particular attention and efforts are focused, in particular, on countering the campaign of disinformation and accusations on the part of the Russian Federation. The study proves that, despite the scale and impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, NATO has contributed to curbing it and has demonstrated its ability to respond to crises.