Russia should be ashamed of mayor's abduction - Zelensky

 Zelensky says Russia should be ashamed of its abduction

Volodymyr Zelensky says Russia should be ashamed of its abduction of the mayor of Melitopol, Ivan Federov.

Qazet.az reports that Russian troops abducted Federov from a crisis centre in the occupied south-eastern city on Friday afternoon. His kidnapping was captured on CCTV footage which has been widely shared on social media.

"The detention of the mayor of Melitopol is a crime against democracy," Zelensky says.

"They've killed one mayor and now they capture another one. Meaning that all the mayors, no matter which cities the Russian forces enter, if they do not confirm their collaboration, they are being killed" Zelensky adds. "This is simple terrorism".

"A human being captured. They are not ashamed of that video. They take him and bring him to a cellar and torture him and then kill him," Zelensky alleged.