A new mayor has been appointed in Ukraine s Melitopol city after the elected mayor was detained by the Russian forces, according to Zaporizhzhia regional administration.
Earlier, Zelenskyy also spoke with the German chancellor Olaf Scholz and the French president Emmanuel Macron for their help in the release of Melitopol mayor, Ivan Fedorov.
The Russian-backed Luhansk regional prosecutor came forward to defend the mayor's detention and claimed that Fedorov had committed terrorism offenses and was under investigation.
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Russia has abducted Yevhen Matveyev, Mayor of Dniprorudne in Vasylivka district, Zaporizhzhia region of Ukraine, said the Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kule