The law on the imposition of martial law in 10 regions of Ukraine was published on Thursday in the governmental newspaper Uryadovy Kuryer, thus officially entering into force.
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 29th November, 2018) The law on the imposition of martial law in 10 regions of Ukraine was published on Thursday in the governmental newspaper Uryadovy Kuryer, thus officially entering into force.
The text of the document states that martial law is introduced in Vinnytsia, Luhansk, Mykolaiv, Sumy, Odessa, Kharkiv, Chernihiv, Donetsk, Zaporizhia and Kherson regions, as well as in the inland waters of the Azov-Kerch water area. Mobilization under martial law shall be announced by the Ukranian president.
On Wednesday, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko signed a decree to impose martial law in a number of Ukrainian regions, following an incident on Sunday when three Ukrainian vessels were seized by Russia in the Black Sea after breaching the Russian maritime border.
