![]() ![]() These new escalatory measures are adding to a growing concern that Putin could fire a nuclear warhead over the Black Sea as a warning to NATO, The Sun reported. Putin said he was conferring additional powers on the leaders of all of Russia’s 80-plus regions to protect critical facilities, maintain public order and increase production in support of what Moscow calls its “special military operation”. The measures apply to the southern regions of Krasnodar, Belgorod, Bryansk, Voronezh, Kursk and Rostov, which are all near Ukraine, and the territories of Crimea and Sevastopol, which Russia seized from Ukraine in 2014. SPUTNIK/AFP via Getty Images In the occupied region of Kherson on Wednesday, Kremlin-appointed officials urged civilians to flee the city ahead of a looming Ukrainian attack. ![]() Russian President Vladimir Putin declared martial law in the four annexed regions of Ukraine while chairing a Security Council meeting via a video link at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow on October 19. In televised remarks to members of his Security Council, Putin also issued a decree restricting movement in and out of eight regions adjoining Ukraine. “This does not change anything for Ukraine: we continue the liberation and deoccupation of our territories.” “‘Martial law’ implementation on the occupied territories by Russia should be considered only as a pseudo-legalization of (the) looting of Ukrainians’ property,” tweeted Mykhailo Podolyak, a Ukrainian presidential adviser. Kyiv, which does not recognize Moscow’s seizures of Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, dismissed the move. Just hours later, Russia’s upper house of parliament, the Federation Council, rubber-stamped the decree. Putin made the announcement while chairing a meeting of his Security Council via video link. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday declared martial law in the four illegally annexed regions of Ukraine, as fears grow that a nuclear weapon may be detonated over the Black Sea. Love blossoms in Serbia between Ukrainian, Russian ‘enemies’ Ukraine losing large number of troops as it brags about Russian casualties Send in the big guns, Joe, Medicare’s not so sacred after all and other commentary Russia has already ‘lost’ war in Ukraine, now a ‘global pariah’: US Gen. ![]()
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