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Elected mayor of Ukraine’s Kherson arrested by pro-Russian forces: media

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Pro-Moscow forces have detained Igor Kolykhayev, the elected mayor of the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson, Russian media reported on Tuesday.

“Ex-mayor Kolykhayev has been detained,” Kirill Stremousov, deputy head of the Russian-backed Kherson administration, told state news agency RIA Novosti.

Kolykhayev, the elected Kherson mayor, was “kidnapped” by pro-Russian forces Tuesday morning, his counselor Galyna Lyashevska said on Facebook.

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