Occupiers kidnap deputy mayor of Enerhodar – Enerhodar City Council
ROMAN PETRENKO – SUNDAY, 20 MARCH 2022, 13:47
Enerhodar City Council reported that Ivan Samoidiuk, First Deputy Mayor of Enerhodar, has been kidnapped.
Source: Dmytro Orlov, Mayor of Enerhodar, on Facebook
Quote: "Ivan Samoidiuk, the first deputy mayor, has been abducted! We don't know what condition he’s in! He hasn't been in touch since yesterday, and today we have received confirmed information that he has been cynically abducted!
Russian occupiers have also begun putting physical and psychological pressure on Enerhodar's local activists. They continue to hunt for Enerhodar residents whose moral position is seen as a threat."
Details: Orlov asks members of the local council and activists to be careful. He also asks people to gather for a protest near the City Council's building at 2 pm.
Background:
- The Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant caught fire due to continuous shelling by Russian troops. A fire broke out in the training unit and laboratory building.
- Nuclear safety at the Zaporizhzhia plant had been compromised, and the reactors were in danger as a result of shelling by Russian troops.
- Firefighters could not put out the fire due to ongoing fighting but were later allowed to come through. The fire was extinguished.
- President Volodymyr Zelenskyy appealed to the international community and stated that no one had ever fired at nuclear power plants before and that the Russians were threatening to blow up the plant, which put the whole world in danger of a global catastrophe.
