The entire content of Vladimir Putin’s address is unknown, but Andrei Kartapolov reveals what we can expect.
Vladimir Putin’s speech was scheduled to take place on Tuesday evening, but it was postponed to Wednesday. Nobody knows what the president will actually announce, but Andrei Kartapolov says it will not be a general mobilization.
Kartapolov is a deputy to the Russian Duma, a former deputy defense minister and a retired general. Moreover, it was he who introduced the new concepts of “mobilization” and “martial law” into the Criminal Code.
There will be no universal mobilization. The president, his press secretary Dmitry Peskov and many other politicians at the federal level spoke about it many times. “Law” is not the same as “mobilization”, the politician told Parliamentary Gazeta.
However, he admitted that in some regions of Russia martial law could be imposed with all the consequences of this decision. During martial law, it is the military administration that takes full power. Restrictions, such as curfew, a special operating regime will be introduced for critical infrastructure facilities, etc. And this is what it will be like, said Kartapolov.
