Tension is rising: Parliament Ukraine decides on the state of siege

kiev - Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has proposed to declare martial law. Today, Parliament is voting on that plan, following a violent blockade of three Ukrainian navy ships by Russia. Three people were injured.

In a state of siege the army gets the leading role in a country. Many civil liberties are sacrificed. People in Eastern Europe remember such a time as 'the tanks that rolled through the streets'.