Eleven heads of local communities are in captivity of Russian invaders as of April 3. In particular, these are people from Kyiv, Kherson, Kharkiv, Zaporozhye, Mykolaiv and Donetsk regions, Irina Vereshchuk, head of the Ministry of Reintegration, said during a briefing..

" We inform the International Committee of the Red Cross about them, as well as about other missing civilians, and through this international organization we demand from the Russian Federation to provide information on the whereabouts of captured civilians and their state of health,"

Vereshchuk added that the authorities are negotiating the release of civilians as part of the exchange of prisoners of war..

It should be noted that after attempts to negotiate with the local chairmen, who flatly refused to cooperate with the occupiers, and the residents of their cities went out to protest, the Russian military began to kidnap the mayors. Some of them disappeared without a trace, and the mayor of Melitopol was exchanged for several Russian military. At the same time, some city leaders are switching to cooperation with the occupiers..