The exceptional regime implemented, which limits displacements in particular and makes it possible to establish control of communications, also applies to border Russian regions and gives local authorities exceptional powers.
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Russia is not at war, but part of what it considers as its territory now lives under the regime of martial law. For the first time in the history of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin signed an Oukase in this direction, Wednesday October 19, and justified this decision with his security council by explaining that “[Ukrainian] neonazis openly use terrorist methods and send groups of saboteurs on our territory “.
This exceptional regime now applies to the four Ukrainian regions annexed by Moscow at the end of September – Louhansk, Donetsk, Zaporijia and Kherson. Martial law, a whole of nineteen measures restricting the rights of citizens, is governed by a 2002 constitutional law. It allows the limitation of displacements in these territories or at their borders, the prohibition of rallies, the establishment of the Censorship, control of communications, including private, the confiscation of goods from individuals or businesses, the requisition of citizens for military work or the forced displacement of the population.
This last point takes on a particular glow, while evacuations began on Wednesday in the Kherson region, where the Ukrainian army continues an important counter-offensive. The (Russian) governor of this region, Vladimir Saldo, also said in the evening that “under martial law, power returns to the military”.
“carte blanche” given to the regional powers
More than the explosion of a truck trapped on the Crimea bridge, in early October, it is the Ukrainian advance in these annexed territories that motivates the measure. After the military mobilization and the triggering of a strike campaign on Ukrainian infrastructure, martial law is supposed to complete Russia in battle order.