THE PROBLEM OF STATELESSNESS IN UKRAINE AND THE WAYS OF ADDRESSING IT Ukraine. In addition, it is reasonable to reduce the requirement under Article 9(3) of permanent lawful residence in the territory of Ukraine as a condition for acquisition of citizenship of Ukraine by stateless persons, regardless of whether they entered Ukraine as stateless persons or their citizenship was terminated after their entry into Ukraine. Similarly to persons granted refugee status in Ukraine under Article 9(6), it is reasonable to cancel the requirement for stateless persons to meet the condition of availability of lawful means of subsistence, abolish the requirement that obtaining an immigration permit be a prerequisite for their access to naturalization and to provide them with a right to naturalization following a shorter period of residence in Ukraine. The legislation in force needs to be amended to provide adequate procedural guarantees for those stripped of Ukrainian citizenship and regulate the legal status of individuals who are challenging such decisions in courts. The provisions on restoration of Ukrainian citizenship make the restoration impossible for persons concerning whom the decisions on acquisition of citizenship under Articles 8 (by territorial origin) and 10 (through restoration) were cancelled, which may entail a permanent statelessness situation. Therefore, a possibility of restoring Ukrainian citizenship for such persons should be envisaged. Besides, it is necessary to provide for a possibility of restoring Ukrainian citizenship for persons who lost Ukrainian citizenship because of its acquisition through a fraud, deliberate submission of untrue information or false documents. As to restoration of Ukrainian citizenship for children, it is reasonable to introduce a simplified procedure for restoration of Ukrainian citizenship for children whose Ukrainian citizenship was terminated, without conditioning such restoration on submission of an obligation to renounce foreign citizenship. Considering that the Law does not authorize the State Migration Service of Ukraine to verify Ukrainian citizenship of persons residing in the territory of Ukraine, this complicates the situation with verification of Ukrainian citizenship of persons with uncertain citizenship, for example persons belonging to the Roma national minority. To fill this gap, such competence should be granted to the State Migration Service and should be enshrined in the Law or the relevant by-laws. Last but not least, the Law of Ukraine on Citizenship of Ukraine does not include 38