![]() ![]() Watch live: House set to hold third Speaker vote Jordan seeks Speakership in third floor vote He’s expected to fall. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. “We are working on solving very complex, large-scale tasks to ensure a reliable future for Russia, the future of our people,” he said. Putin conveyed a similar message during his meeting the Security Council on Wednesday, in which he also ordered the creation of a special coordinating council to carry out the measures. “I think in terms of what this shows is a growing awareness that Russia is in this probably for the long haul,” said Galeotti, who wrote the book “Putin’s Wars: From Chechnya to Ukraine.” Galeotti said this could have broad implications for Russian society, allowing officials to control industrial activity to help the war, further control the media or crush labor actions that conflict with wartime priorities. “And also a signal to the population that they’re doing something and something’s happening, because everybody knows that the war isn’t going as they planned,” he added. While his martial law declaration was focused largely on Ukraine and border regions in Russia, Finkel said the final provision allowing for “other measures” could be a “backdoor to introduce martial law in other parts of Russia without actually calling it martial law.” Ukrainian soldiers sit on an armoured vehicle as they drive on a road between Izium and Lyman, recently retaken areas in Ukraine, on Oct. ![]() While the martial law order mainly applies to the four occupied regions of Ukraine - Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson - it also announced the “economic mobilization” of eight Russian regions on Ukraine’s border, including occupied Crimea.Īnd the final section says that “other measures may be applied in the Russian Federation during the period of martial law.” What it means for Ukraine “In terms of sort of shifting to a sort of model of national mobilization of every aspect of politics, society and economics, you know, this is definitely a move that up to now Putin has been trying to avoid.” “This is a big deal because in effect what Putin is doing is actually bringing all the Russian Federation into some level of martial law,” said Mark Galeotti, an honorary professor at the University College London’s School of Slavonic and East European Studies. Experts said the order could also be a “back door” to pull more of Russian society into the war effort, strengthening Putin’s footing for future offensives but weakening his claim that the “special military operation” in Ukraine is not a full-fledged war. ![]()
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