Putin Announces He Is Imposing Martial Law in Four Occupied Ukrainian Territories & Places Russia on ‘War Readiness’!

• Putin Announces He Is Imposing Martial Law in Four Occupied Ukrainian Territories & Places Russia on ‘War Readiness’!
  by https://abcnews.go.com/
  Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that he will impose martial law in four Ukrainian territories occupied by Russian forces — Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporozhye. All four regions were illegally annexed by Putin last month.
  –
  Marital law grants Russia’s authorities huge powers over the civilian population in the regions it is imposed. Martial law is set to go into effect on Thursday. The decree, which Putin announced during a televised meeting with his security council, will now be sent to be rubber stamped by Russia’s upper chamber of parliament, the Federation Council.
  –
  Putin has also granted new powers to governors in several regions bordering Ukraine. Putin’s decree includes other points ordering the rest of Russia itself put into various levels of “readiness.”
  –
  The decree puts eight regions bordering Ukraine into a state of “moderate level of response,” but also imposes a “level of heightened readiness” in the southern and central regions that include Moscow. All other Russians regions are put on a “basic level of readiness.”
  –
  The decree says these statuses grant special powers to local authorities that are similar to martial law and includes points imposing increased security at key facilities, puts transport and communications into a special regime and also envisages the creation of “territorial defense headquarters” in some regions.

end