11 Ukrainian village heads held in Russian captivity

Roman Petrenko – Sunday, 3 April 2022, 11:04

As of 3 April, 11 village heads from the Kyiv, Kherson, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Mykolayiv, and Donetsk regions are being held in captivity by the Russian troops.

Source: Iryna Vereshchuk, Minister of Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories, during a press briefing

According to Vereshchuk: "11 village heads from the Kyiv, Kherson, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, Mykolayiv, and Donetsk regions are being held in captivity by the occupying troops.

We have informed the International Committee of the Red Cross about this, just as we inform them about other missing civilians, and we demand – via this organisation – that the Russian Federation share information about where civilians are held captive and about the state of their health."

Details: Vereshchuk said that the government was negotiating the freeing of the captive civilians as part of the prisoner exchange with Russia.

Earlier: After the Kyiv region was liberated from the occupying forces, the bodies of Olha Sukhenko, the village head of Motyzhyn, and her husband, both of whom were kidnapped on 23 March, were found.