After Russian forces captured the southern city of Kherson, much of what the outside world knew about life under Moscow’s rule came from the city’s mayor, who described a world of repression, insecurity and the mass detainment of hundreds of people.
On Tuesday, the mayor, Ihor Kolykhaev, was himself arrested, shortly after he arrived at the municipal headquarters where he had continued to work despite being ousted from office, his colleagues said. Russian soldiers bundled him into a bus emblazoned with the Moscow’s war emblem, “Z,” and took him to an unknown location.
“I fear for the life of Ihor Kolykhaev,” Halyna Liashevska, the mayor’s press secretary, wrote in a message posted on Mr. Kolykhaev’s Facebook page. Read more
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