Rioters chanted "Stop the Steal," falsely claiming Trump had won the election.īuzzFeed News reported Sunday that local lawmakers in the district had received a briefing from the district's attorney general's office in the days before the riots about the implications if Trump were to invoke the Insurrection Act and how it would affect the local police department. Congress was meeting to certify the Electoral College vote and President-elect Joe Biden's win. Read this: Former Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund's request for National Guard backup was denied, he says in interview How would the Insurrection Act have applied to the Capitol riot?Ī deadly mob that Trump incited stormed the Capitol last Wednesday, breaking in, attacking Capitol Police officers and trashing offices as some stormed onto the Senate floor. It would apply to situations where the rule of law has broken down so much that law is no longer in place. "It's really an alien concept" in the U.S., he said. Try to leave the occupied territory," Mr Zelenskyy said."Martial law is essentially the absence of law," Banks added. "In the near future, the occupiers will try to recruit men into their army … please avoid it as much as you can. Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, urged people in occupied southern and eastern areas of Ukraine to leave. Joe Biden declares Western support for Ukraine 'unwavering' in defiant Warsaw speech.Russia claims gains in relentless battles in east Ukraine.Vladimir Putin suspends last nuclear treaty with US, puts new missiles on combat duty.Read more on Russia's invasion of Ukraine: Ukraine has accused Russia of deporting people from occupied territories.Ī US envoy said in September that Russia might have forcibly deported between 900,000 and 1.6 million Ukrainians, accusing it of war crimes. The head of Russia's Security Council, Nikolai Patrushev, also said on Wednesday that 5 million residents of the Donbas region and other parts of south-east Ukraine had "found refuge" in Russia in recent years from persecution by Kyiv, according to TASS. On Wednesday, Mr Saldo announced that 50,000-60,000 people would be evacuated from part of the Kherson region over the next six days as a Ukrainian counteroffensive gathers pace. Russian law allows for the temporary "resettlement" of residents to safe areas and the evacuation of "objects of economic, social and cultural significance". Martial law is when ordinary law is suspended and civilian decision-makers are temporarily replaced by the military, usually during times of unrest or a state of emergency.
His decree gave law enforcement agencies three days to submit specific proposals and ordered the creation of territorial defence forces in the four annexed regions. "We are working to solve very difficult, large-scale tasks to ensure Russia's security and safe future, to protect our people," Mr Putin said at the start of a Security Council meeting. While Mr Putin didn't immediately spell out the steps that would be taken, there are signs the decree could impose curfews, restrictions on public gatherings, tighter censorship and forced deportations. That order is to become effective on Thursday, local time, and will be enforced in Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, areas of Donbas that Russia has annexed. Vladimir Putin has declared martial law in four partially Russian occupied regions of Ukraine that it claims as its own.
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