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Danilov on Putin's declaration of martial law: preparation for mass deportation and another crime

He stated that Russia entered the strategic zugzwang [a term derived from chess - ed.] phase of the war, where every move worsens its situation and brings it closer to the end.



Ukrayinska Pravda

VALENTYNA ROMANENKO – WEDNESDAY, 19 OCTOBER 2022

By declaring martial law in the temporarily occupied territories [of Ukraine], Vladimir Putin's regime plans to commit another crime that the world must condemn.

Source: Oleksiy Danilov, the Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council of Ukraine, on Twitter

Quote from Danilov: "Putin's martial law in the annexed regions of Ukraine is in preparation for the mass deportation of the Ukrainian population to depressed areas of Russia in order to change the ethnic composition of the occupied territory. A crime that should be condemned by the UN and that was already committed by Russia in Crimea and remains unpunished".

Background: On 19 October, the president of the aggressor country of Russia, Vladimir Putin, announced the decision to declare martial law in the annexed parts of the Ukrainian oblasts of Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Luhansk and Donetsk.

In addition, representatives of the occupation "administration" of Kherson city and oblast are planning to take approximately 50,000-60,000 residents from four right-bank districts in the oblast to the left bank of the Dnipro River or to Russia on grounds that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are allegedly preparing a counteroffensive.

Reminder: Oleksii Danilov, Secretary of the National Security and Defence Council, believes that Russia has initiated the process of its own decolonisation by launching a full-scale war against Ukraine. He stated that Russia entered the strategic zugzwang [a term derived from chess - ed.] phase of the war, where every move worsens its situation and brings it closer to the end.

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Oleksii Danilov is sure that Russia wants to change the ethnic composition of the occupied territories

“Putin’s martial law in ‘annexed’ Ukrainian regions amounts to preparation for mass deportations of the Ukrainian population to (economically) stagnant Russian regions, and attempts to alter the ethnic structure of (Russia-) occupied territories,” said Danilov.

Read also: Putin announces martial law in Ukraine’s Russian-occupied territories

“The UN ought to condemn this crime, as it repeats what Russia has previously done in occupied Crimea, and suffered no consequences for it.”

Earlier on Oct. 19, Putin declared martial law across occupied Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Donetsk, and Luhansk oblasts of Ukraine – regions he claims to have recently annexed as parts of the Russian Federation.


Ukrainian officials maintain the move changes nothing in how Kyiv intends to prosecute the war.

“Russia introducing martial law in occupied territories should be considered as nothing else but attempts to legitimize the looting and plundering of Ukrainian assets before another (Russian) withdrawal,” said Mykhailo Podolyak, adviser to the Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine.

Ukraines Foreign Ministry asks for more air defence systems after Putin declares martial law


EUROPEAN PRAVDA — WEDNESDAY, 19 OCTOBER 2022, 1

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine considers the decree of Russian President Vladimir Putin introducing "martial law" in four occupied regions of Ukraine to be a new stage of terror, and asks partners to increase military support.

European Pravda reported on the Ministry’s statement to this effect, published on Thursday.

Ukraine’s Ministry highlights that martial law is intended to suppress the resistance of residents of Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia, and Kherson oblasts who oppose Russian occupation. The Ministry also stated that Putin’s decree proclaiming martial law is null and void and has no legal effect.


"Despite the agony of the regime in the Kremlin, Ukraine will continue liberating occupied territories and rescuing its people," the Foreign Ministry declared.

The Ministry has called on Ukraine’s Western partners to decisively condemn the intention of Russian occupation administrations "to deprive residents of the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine of even basic human rights, as well as to condemn their illegal plans to legalise looting, forced deportations and mobilisation."

"We also appeal [to our partners - ed.] to provide Ukraine with modern anti-missile and anti-air defence systems as soon as possible to protect our civilian population from Russia's barbaric missile and kamikaze drone attacks," the Ministry’s statement added.

As reported earlier, on 19 October 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the decision to impose martial law in the annexed parts of the Ukrainian oblasts of Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Luhansk and Donetsk.

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