October 20, 2022: -On Wednesday, President Vladimir Putin showed martial law in the four regions that Russia annexed in the previous month.

Martial law will be said in Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia, the four regions in Ukraine that Moscow says as Russian territory after sham referendums that Ukraine and its allies have condemned as lawful and unlawful in September.

On Wednesday, the decision, which announces as Putin addressed a discussion at the Russian Security Council, will likely mean that military ones will replace the regions’ civil administrations.

Putin stated all those regions should confirm that steps are taken to safeguard “important facilities” and said that he had decided, due to Kyiv’s denial, to recognize the annexation of the four regions.

“Constitutional laws on the admission of four recent regions into the Russian Federation have informed into force. As you know, the Kyiv regime refused to recognize people’s will and choice and rejected any negotiation proposals. On the contrary, shelling continues. Civilians are dying,” Putin stated, according to comments shown by the Russian state news agency Tass.

Putin declared he had signed a decree on the talk of martial law in these regions, and this will be gone for approval by the Federation Council or Senate.

Martial law is explained as temporary when civil authorities are deemed to be in trouble and struggling to function. The breadth and scope of a military takeover are yet to be detailed. Still, martial law generally experienced civil rights subsumed to military rule. However, it is far that changes in the situation for civilians in annexed areas in Ukraine remain to be witnessed.

His statements come at a pivotal moment in the problem in Ukraine. Over a few months, Ukraine’s forces have been gaining in the northeast and south of the area.

An attempt to attack Russia’s prized Kerch Strait Bridge, which links the Russian mainland with annexed Crimea, also struck Moscow. Still, it has responded with a barrage of missiles and drone attacks on various Ukrainian cities and energy infrastructure.

Remembering the blowing up of the Crimean bridge, Putin claimed on Wednesday that the Russian special services “terrorist attacks in different regions of Russia against transport and energy facilities” and is known as the four regions to take steps to safeguard “critically important facilities.”