Russian President Vladimir Putin has introduced martial law in four Russian-occupied regions of Ukraine that Moscow claimed as its own last month.
In a televised address to members of his security council, Putin instructed the government to set up a special coordinating council under Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin to work with Russia's regions to boost Moscow's war effort in Ukraine.
The decree states that the Kremlin has the power to carry out mobilisation measures and the "authority to implement measures to meet the needs of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation."
