Russian troops kidnapped more than 500 civilians in temporarily occupied Melitopol during the three months of their invasion of Ukraine, Mayor Ivan Fedorov said..

" Over the entire period of the occupation, over three months, more than 500 people were kidnapped: someone is being held for three days, someone for more than a month,"

Russian troops hold 16-year-old child hostage for more than 50 days.

Fedorov also stressed that the residents of Melitopol are running out of cash, and products imported from the temporarily occupied Crimea cost 3-4 times more than in the territory controlled by Ukraine..

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In Melitopol, Zaporozhye region, temporarily occupied by Russian troops, a powerful explosion rocked the city center this morning.

The explosion occurred in the area of \u200b\u200bthe shopping center Kvartal, where the high-rise building of the pseudo-governor of the Zaporozhye region Yevgeny Balitsky is located.