The mayor of southern Ukraine's Melitopol was kidnapped on Friday by Russian soldiers occupying the city, President Volodymyr Zelensky and Ukrainian officials said.
This photograph taken on February 23, 2022 shows the Ukrainian flag fluttering above the dome of the parliament in Kyiv, Ukraine. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and other officials say the mayor of Melitopol was kidnapped by Russian troops on Friday, March 11, 2022. Sergei Supinsky/ AFP
"A group of 10 occupiers kidnapped the mayor of Melitopol Ivan Fedorov," Ukraine's parliament said on Twitter.It said the mayor was seized when he was at the city's crisis center dealing with supply issues. "This is obviously a sign of weakness of the invaders... They have moved to a new stage of terror in which they are trying to physically eliminate representatives of legitimate local Ukrainian authorities," he said.
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