Residents protest the kidnapping of Mayor Ivan Fedorov outdoors an administration constructing in Melitopol, Ukraine, on March 12, 2022.
Courtesy of Deputy Head for President's Workplace, Ukraine/Handout by way of REUTERS
Russian army forces have put in a brand new mayor for the embattled metropolis of Melitopol — at some point after its elected mayor was kidnapped by a bunch of 10 Russian troopers.
Galina Danilchenko, a former member of the town council, was proclaimed the appearing mayor on native TV Saturday, CNN reported.
Mayor Ivan Fedorov was taken from Melitopol’s disaster middle Friday with a plastic bag over his head after he “refused to cooperate with the enemy,” Ukraine’s parliament stated.
Greater than 2,000 residents of the Russian-occupied metropolis within the Kremlin-backed insurgent area of Luhansk staged a rally to assist Fedorov Saturday, whereas Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky demanded his speedy launch.
However in a televised assertion, Danilchenko stated she aimed to get the town “again to regular” and warned in opposition to those that would “provoke a response of unhealthy habits.”
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“I ask you to maintain your wits about you and to not give in to those provocations,” she stated.
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