LUHANSK, May 22 – 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 Thursday.

"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.