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Stores selling goods other than food were closing, public sector employees were put on a shorter day, and public transportation went over to shorter hours on territory controlled by the "Luhansk People's Republic" as the leadership of the unilaterally proclaimed state declared "martial law" and "full mobilization" on May 22.

“Entrepreneurs have ordered salespeople to lock their stores due to
the martial law,” a saleswoman told an Interfax correspondent as she was
locking one of the stores.

“Public sector employees, including hospital personnel, were
commanded to reduce their working hours and go home, and transportation
will run till 4:00 p.m.,” she said.

“They said there would be a mopping-up operation against provocation seekers and nationalists,” the woman said.

Food stores and cafes stayed open.

The Interfax reporter saw longer queues at ATMs.

“Due to the unilateral start of hostilities on the territory of the
Luhansk People’s Republic by Ukrainian Armed Forces, I declare martial
law on the territory of the Luhansk People’s Republic and declare full
mobilization,” the leader of the “Luhansk People’s Republic,” Valeriy
Bolotov, told reporters earlier on Thursday.