About 2,200 Ukrainian men have been detained for trying to flee the country amid Russian invasion. Kyiv’s border guard agency on Sunday said that these people, of fighting age, violated the martial law.  

The border guard claims that some of them used forged documents and others tried to bribe border guards to get out of the war-torn country.

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It further added that some have been found dead while trying to cross the Carpathian mountains in adverse weather, without specifying the number.

What is the Martial law?

The Martial law, which was imposed in Ukraine after Russia invaded the country on February 24, is used by governments to bar those individuals in fighting age, 18 to 60, from fleeing the country. It is the temporary imposition of direct military control of normal civil functions or even suspension of civil law by the authority. 

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In Ukraine, martial law was imposed so people between the age of 18 and 60 could be called up to fight Russian troops. 

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had combined all national TV channels into one platform under martial law. 

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“This decision was taken in view of the direct military aggression of the Russian Federation, the active dissemination of misinformation by the aggressor state, distortion of information, as well as justifying or denying the armed aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine,” Ukraine’s National Council had said last month. 

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Martial law has on several occasions been used after a coup d’état (Thailand in 2006 and 2014, and Egypt in 2013); when threatened by popular protest (China, Tiananmen Square protests of 1989). It is also declared during major natural disasters and emergencies.