The detention of the mayor of the southeastern Ukrainian city of Melitopol is a "crime against democracy," Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said Friday in a video posted on Facebook, APA reports citing CNN.
Earier Friday, Melitopol mayor Ivan Fedorov was seen on video being led away from a government building in the city by armed men. A short time later, the Russian-backed Luhansk regional prosecutor claimed Fedorov had committed terrorism offenses and was under investigation.
Fedorov's detention was "a sign of the weakness of the invaders," Zelensky said.
Zelensky added that the mayor's detention was "not only against a particular person, not only against a particular community and not only against Ukraine."
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