Putin didn’t immediately spell out the steps that would be taken under martial law, but legislation indicates it may involve travel and public gathering restrictions, tighter censorship, and more.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared Martial Law in the four regions of Ukraine that Moscow annexed during the invasion. Putin didn't provide details of the extra powers the heads of Russian regions would have in that decree.Russian forces launched mass evacuations of civilians Wednesday from one of the first major cities they seized in— a tacit acknowledgment that yet another stinging battlefield defeat may be unfolding for President Vladimir Putin.
Text messages warned residents to expect shelling and said buses were being prepared for them to leave, Russian state media reported. Leaflets told evacuees that they could take the weight equivalent of two large suitcases, medicines and food for a few days. Andriy Yermak, head of the Ukrainian presidential office, called the evacuation "a propaganda show" and said Russia’s claims that Kyiv’s forces might shell Kherson were "a rather primitive tactic, given that the Armed Forces do not fire at Ukrainian cities."
Putin's martial law order extended to all four regions. He also gave emergency extra powers to the heads of Russian regions. But after being routed from around the capital, Kyiv, and then pushed back in the south and east by the ongoing Ukrainian counteroffensive launched in late summer, with the backing of Western-supplied weaponry, Moscow is now increasingly resorting to targeting Ukraine's power plants and other energy infrastructure, threatening a miserable winter for millions of Ukrainians.
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