10/19/2022
Putin Declares Martial Law in Ukraine’s Annexed Regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday (Oct. 19) he was introducing martial law in four annexed regions of Ukraine that Moscow claimed last month as its own territory but is trying to defend from Ukrainian advances.
In televised remarks to members of his Security Council, Putin boosted the powers of Russia’s regional governors and ordered the creation of a special coordinating council under Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin to step up the faltering war effort.
He said the “entire system of state administration,” not only the specialized security agencies, must be geared to supporting what Russia calls its “special military operation.”
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