Ukraine denounces kidnapping of a mayor by Russian troops

The mayor of Melitopol was kidnapped on Friday by Russian soldiers occupying this city in southern Ukraineaffirmed the Parliament of the country and its president, Volodymyr Zelensky.

“A group of ten squatters has kidnapped the mayor of Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov”, indicated the Rada, the Ukrainian Parliament, on its Twitter account. “He refused to cooperate with the enemy”he added.

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According to this source, he was arrested when he was in the crisis center of the city, located about 120 km south of Zaporizhzhia, to deal with supply issues.

“Today in Melitopol, the invaders have captured the mayor of the city Ivan Fedorov. A mayor who bravely defends Ukraine and members of the community from him”he later said Zelensky in a video.

“This is clearly a sign of the invaders’ weakness (…) They have entered a new stage of terror in which they are trying to physically eliminate the representatives of the legitimate local Ukrainian authorities,” he pointed.

The deputy head of the Ukrainian presidential administration, Kirill Tymoshenko, previously posted on Telegram a video showing from a distance soldiers leaving a building holding a man dressed in black with his head apparently covered with a black bag.

According to the Rada, other officials in the region, the deputy head of the Zaporizhzhia regional council, Leyla Ibragimova, had been captured and then released days ago.

Before the start of the invasion on February 24, Melitopol had just over 150,000 inhabitants.

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Source: Elcomercio

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