diff --git a/src/main/java/com/github/_1c_syntax/bsl/languageserver/utils/expressiontree/ExpressionTreeBuildingVisitor.java b/src/main/java/com/github/_1c_syntax/bsl/languageserver/utils/expressiontree/ExpressionTreeBuildingVisitor.java
index 94f6652418d..bfab6875415 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/github/_1c_syntax/bsl/languageserver/utils/expressiontree/ExpressionTreeBuildingVisitor.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/github/_1c_syntax/bsl/languageserver/utils/expressiontree/ExpressionTreeBuildingVisitor.java
@@ -66,7 +66,10 @@ public int getPriority() {
    * @param ctx AST выражения
    * @return дерево вычисления выражения
    */
-  public static @Nullable BslExpression buildExpressionTree(BSLParser.ExpressionContext ctx) {
+  public static @Nullable BslExpression buildExpressionTree(BSLParser.@Nullable ExpressionContext ctx) {
+    if (ctx == null) {
+      return null;
+    }
     var instance = new ExpressionTreeBuildingVisitor();
     instance.visitExpression(ctx);
     return instance.getExpressionTree();
@@ -419,11 +422,19 @@ public ParseTree visitAccessCall(BSLParser.AccessCallContext ctx) {
 
   @Override
   public ParseTree visitTernaryOperator(BSLParser.TernaryOperatorContext ctx) {
-    var ternary = TernaryOperatorNode.create(
-      Objects.requireNonNull(makeSubexpression(ctx.expression(0))),
-      Objects.requireNonNull(makeSubexpression(ctx.expression(1))),
-      Objects.requireNonNull(makeSubexpression(ctx.expression(2)))
-    );
+    var condition = makeSubexpression(ctx.expression(0));
+    var truePart = makeSubexpression(ctx.expression(1));
+    var falsePart = makeSubexpression(ctx.expression(2));
+
+    // If any expression is null (which happens when the parser encounters syntax errors
+    // in incomplete ternary operators like "?" or "Возврат ?"), create an error node
+    // instead of attempting to create a TernaryOperatorNode to avoid NullPointerException
+    if (condition == null || truePart == null || falsePart == null) {
+      operands.push(new ErrorExpressionNode(ctx));
+      return ctx;
+    }
+
+    var ternary = TernaryOperatorNode.create(condition, truePart, falsePart);
 
     ternary.setRepresentingAst(ctx);
     operands.push(ternary);
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/github/_1c_syntax/bsl/languageserver/utils/expressiontree/ExpressionTreeBuildingVisitorTest.java b/src/test/java/com/github/_1c_syntax/bsl/languageserver/utils/expressiontree/ExpressionTreeBuildingVisitorTest.java
index 0bbae0aed78..80979820246 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/github/_1c_syntax/bsl/languageserver/utils/expressiontree/ExpressionTreeBuildingVisitorTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/github/_1c_syntax/bsl/languageserver/utils/expressiontree/ExpressionTreeBuildingVisitorTest.java
@@ -88,7 +88,8 @@ static Stream<Arguments> errorHandlingTestCases() {
       createIfStatementTestCase("New expression", "Новый"),
       createIfStatementTestCase("New expression with parenthes", "Новый ("),
       createIfStatementTestCase("New expression with two parantheses", "Новый ()"),
-      createIfStatementTestCase("New expression with NOT", "Новый Структура(\"\", Не)", ConstructorCallNode.class)
+      createIfStatementTestCase("New expression with NOT", "Новый Структура(\"\", Не)", ConstructorCallNode.class),
+      createIfStatementTestCase("Incomplete ternary operator - only question mark", "?")
     );
   }