On Thursday morning in Melitopol, Zaporozhye region, armed Russian military abducted a deputy of the Zaporizhzhya Regional Council, Crimean Tatar Leyla Ibragimova, Eskender Bariev, a member of the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people, said on Facebook.

He said that at 6 am, armed men in Russian military uniforms broke into the house of the director of the Melitopol city museum of local lore, a deputy of the Zaporozhye regional council and a representative of the indigenous Crimean Tatar people, Leyla Ibragimova, searched and confiscated phones.

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