{"id":15458,"date":"2022-03-06T16:14:13","date_gmt":"2022-03-06T10:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper?p=15458"},"modified":"2022-03-06T16:14:13","modified_gmt":"2022-03-06T10:44:13","slug":"putin-dismisses-martial-law-rumours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/2022\/03\/06\/putin-dismisses-martial-law-rumours\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin Dismisses Martial Law Rumours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Vladimir Putin on Saturday denied rumours that Russia was going to declare a state of emergency or martial law due to the ongoing military operation in Ukraine and Western sanctions against Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Martial law is declared in a country&#8230; in case of a foreign aggression, including in particular places where hostilities take place. We don&#8217;t have a case like this, and I hope we won&#8217;t,&#8221; Putin said in a televised meeting with Russian female military service members, RT reported.<\/p>\n<p>Russian law also allows declaring various forms of special state or a state of emergency due to serious domestic threats or disasters, Putin added. That is not the case now either, he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We don&#8217;t plan to impose any special state on the territory of the Russian Federation,&#8221; the president assured. &#8220;There is no need for it today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A senior Ukrainian official earlier this week claimed its foreign intelligence service had learned that Putin might &#8220;preventively&#8221; declare martial law in Russia on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Presidential aide Mikhail Podolyak claimed without evidence that Russia would ban all protests, cut any contacts with other nations, and impose other restrictions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Vladimir Putin on Saturday denied rumours that Russia was going to declare a state of emergency or martial law due to the ongoing military operation in Ukraine and Western sanctions against Moscow. &#8220;Martial law is declared in a country&#8230; in case of a foreign aggression, including in particular places where hostilities take place. We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15455,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15459,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15458\/revisions\/15459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}