INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Eleven local community leaders in Ukraine have been kidnapped by Russian forces, deputy prime minister Iryna Vereshchuk said Sunday."Up to
said in a video message posted on her Telegram account."We are informing the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the UN, all
possible organizations, just like for the other civilians who have disappeared."Vereshchuk urged "everyone to do everything in their power
to get them back."The deputy prime minister announced the that Olga Sukhenko, head of the village of Motyjin, west of Kyiv, and her husband
had been "killed in captivity" by Russian soldiers.Their abduction had been announced by prosecutors on March 26.The European Union has
condemned the kidnapping of several mayors in Russian-occupied territory, including the mayor of the southern town of Melitopol, who was
freed in an exchange for several captured Russians.Human Rights Watch on Sunday said it had documented several cases of Russian troops
committing possible war crimes against civilians in occupied areas of the Chernigiv, Kharkiv, and Kyiv.These included a case of repeated
clothing, and firewood, the rights group added.
