Putin declares martial law in annexed regions of Ukraine

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Russian President Vladimir Putin declared martial law in the four regions of Ukraine that Moscow illegally annexed and given additional emergency powers to the heads of all regions of Russia&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Putin did not immediately spell out the steps that would be taken under martial law&comma; but said his order was effective starting on Thursday&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>His decree gives law enforcement agencies three days to submit specific proposals&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The upper house of Russia’s parliament is set to quickly seal Mr Putin’s decision to impose martial law in the four regions&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Draft legislation indicates it may involve restrictions on travel and public gatherings&comma; tighter censorship and broader authority for law enforcement agencies&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Putin also did not provide details of the extra powers to be given to the heads of Russian regions under his decree&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;In the current situation&comma; I consider it necessary to give additional powers to heads of all Russian regions&comma;” he said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Russian leader also ordered the establishment of a Coordination Committee to increase interaction between various government agencies in dealing with the fighting in Ukraine that he continued to call a &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;special military operation”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In televised remarks at the start of a security council meeting&comma; the Russian leader said&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Those who are on the frontlines or undergoing training at firing ranges and training centres should feel our support and know that they have our big&comma; great country and unified people behind their back&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Putin’s move came after Russian forces launched mass evacuations of civilians from one of the first major cities they seized in the invasion of Ukraine – a tacit acknowledgement that yet another stinging battlefield defeat may be unfolding for the Russian leader&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ukraine’s stunning counter-offensive appears to be bearing down on Kherson&comma; a southern city of more than 250&comma;000 people&comma; with industries and a major port on the Dnieper River&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The battle for the city is a pivotal moment for both Ukraine and Russia heading into winter&comma; when cold and difficult conditions could largely freeze front lines until the spring thaw&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>What had previously been a trickle of evacuations from the city in recent days was becoming a flood&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Residents could be seen on Russian state television crowding on the Dnieper’s banks&comma; many with small children&comma; to cross by boats to the east – and&comma; from there&comma; deeper into Russian-controlled territory&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Text messages warned residents to expect shelling and said buses were being prepared for them to leave&comma; Russian state media reported&period; Leaflets told evacuees that they could take the weight equivalent of two large suitcases&comma; medicines and food for a few days&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Moscow-backed authorities have said evacuations from occupied territories are voluntary&period; But in many cases&comma; the only routes out are to Russia&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Vladimir Saldo&comma; the region’s Moscow-installed head&comma; said&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;It’s better to evacuate people in case the fighting starts to involve artillery shelling and bombing of the city&comma; and that’s what we are doing now&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Andriy Yermak&comma; head of the Ukrainian presidential office&comma; called the evacuation &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;a propaganda show” and said Russia’s claims that Kyiv’s forces might shell Kherson were &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;a rather primitive tactic&comma; given that the Armed Forces do not fire at Ukrainian cities”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ukrainian forces have rolled back Russian positions on the river’s west bank in recent weeks&comma; and the region’s Moscow-installed administrators now appeared to be hoping that the Dnieper’s wide&comma; deep waters will act as a natural barrier against those approaching forces&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;175797" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-175797" style&equals;"width&colon; 1266px" class&equals;"wp-caption alignnone"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2022&sol;09&sol;b8a4fb6429f30d2f0a2a00c2f4c11fff&lowbar;1280x720&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"Russia&semi; Kazakhstan&comma; War" width&equals;"1266" height&equals;"720" class&equals;"size-full wp-image-175797" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-175797" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">The day Putin ordered his population to mobilize for war on Ukraine&comma; Kazakhstan began military exercises on its Russian border&period; &lpar;Kazakh Defense Ministry&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>In a rare acknowledgement of the pressure that Kyiv’s troops are exerting on the ground&comma; Russia’s new commander for Ukraine on Tuesday described the situation for Russian forces in the Kherson region as &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;very difficult”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Russian bloggers have interpreted General Sergei Surovikin’s comments as a warning of a possible pullback of Moscow’s forces&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Kherson is one of four partly or fully-occupied regions that Russia illegally annexed last month&comma; in an effort – widely condemned and rejected by Western nations – to cement its land-grabs&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Proving incapable of holding all the territory his military has seized and struggling with manpower and equipment losses&comma; Mr Putin has stepped up bombardments from the air&comma; with a scorched-earth campaign targeting Ukrainian power plants and other key infrastructure&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Those tactics contrast with the Kremlin’s strategy in the invasion’s opening stages in February&comma; when Russian commanders had seemingly sought to spare some utilities they perhaps thought they might later need&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But after being routed from around the capital&comma; Kyiv&comma; and then pushed back in the south and east by the ongoing Ukrainian counter-offensive launched in late summer&comma; with the backing of Western-supplied weaponry&comma; Moscow is now increasingly resorting to targeting Ukraine’s power plants and other energy infrastructure&comma; threatening a miserable winter for millions of Ukrainians&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky tweeted on Tuesday that nearly a third of the country’s power stations have been destroyed since October 10&comma; causing &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;massive blackouts” nationwide&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Zelensky urged Ukrainians to make &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;a very conscious” effort to save power&comma; speaking before another night where substations and other infrastructure were pounded&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Shelling knocked out power and water in some parts of Enerhodar&comma; mayor Dmytro Orlov said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The southern city is next to the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant&comma; which is one of the most worrisome flashpoints of the nearly eight-month invasion&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Missiles severely damaged an energy facility in the region of Kryvyi Rih&comma; a city in south-central Ukraine&comma; the regional governor reported&period; He said the strike cut power to villages&comma; towns and to one city district&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Western nations have promised more air defence systems to help Ukraine counter the aerial assault that is testing the resilience Ukrainians have shown since Moscow invaded&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A newly arrived German-supplied air defence system has been deployed and is performing well against the Russian strikes&comma; Mr Zelensky said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He thanked Ukrainian soldiers who shot down missiles and Iranian-made drones that have targeted energy facilities&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Iran has denied supplying drones to Russia&comma; even though the ones now used to strike Ukrainian targets have been identified by Ukraine and Western nations as Shahed drones&comma; a comparatively cheap&comma; unmanned aircraft that Iranian armament facilities make in large numbers&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Across Ukraine&comma; Russian strikes killed at least six civilians and wounded 16 in the latest 24 hour-period&comma; 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