There are also those whose fate is still unknown.
The Russian occupiers kidnapped a number of leaders of Ukrainian cities and killed some of them, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told The Economist.
What are they doing? … The mayors of our cities are being kidnapped. They killed some of them. Some of them we cannot find. We have already found some of them, and they are dead, “Zelensky said.
He added that the occupiers had arbitrarily replaced some of the mayors.
“They are doing the same thing they did in Donbass in 2014. These operations are performed by the same people. This is the same methodology, “Zelensky added.
It should be noted that after attempts to reach an agreement with local presidents, who flatly refused to cooperate with the occupiers, and residents of their cities went out to protest, the Russian military began to kidnap mayors. Some of them disappeared without a trace, and the mayor of Melitopol was exchanged for several Russian servicemen . At the same time, some mayors are cooperating with the occupiers , and the mayor told Slavutich upon his return from captivity that there were no Russian soldiers in the city, although the city's residents denied it.
As he writes Valentina Samar In the article ” Hybrid Occupation “, the occupiers have no people, no funds, no plans for full control of Ukrainian cities and villages, so there will be more shots fired at peaceful protesters every day.
