Ukrainian President Volodimir Zelenski has registered in Parliament — the Verkhovna Rada — two legislative bills to extend for another 90 days the state of martial law and the general mobilization of the population more than eight months after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the start of the war.
Zelenski has proposed a new extension after the one approved last August 15 and ending on November 21. The Parliament is expected to approve without any opposition, as it has been doing, the demands of the Government.
With the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine announced on February 24 by President Putin on the same day, Zelenski invoked martial law, which was originally planned only until March 26. However, events and the course of the war have been extending the deadlines.
Under martial law, among other things, President Zelensky’s government has banned the political activity of some fifteen parties on the grounds that they are pro-Russian and advocate the invasion of Ukraine.
With the mobilization law, Ukraine has banned the departure from the country of all men between 18 and 60 years of age able to be recruited and to leave for the front. The Ministry of Defense has announced that they will not even be able to leave the region where they have their habitual residence without reporting to the Armed Forces.
