Ukraine’s foreign minister says a third mayor and his deputy have been abducted by Russian troops.
Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba tweets that the mayor of the port city of Skadovsk, Oleksandr Yakovlyev, and his deputy Yurii Palyukh were abducted earlier in the day.
No further details are given.
“States & international organizations must demand Russia to immediately release all abducted Ukrainian officials!” Kuleba tweets.
Ukrainian authorities have previously accused Russian troops of abducting Ivan Fedorov, the mayor of the captured city of Melitopol, accusing Moscow of committing a war crime.
Ukraine said Sunday that a second mayor, Yevhen Matveyev, of the central city of Dniprorudne, was taken away by Russian invasion forces in what they decried as “terror” tactics.
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