The Latest Breaking News from Melitopol

Ivan Fedorov, the exiled mayor of occupied Melitopol, says the battle for Donbas is also a fight for global security

Ivan Fedorov was kidnapped by Russian troops on 11 March and released five days later

Melitopol Mayor Ivan Fedorov has been exchanged for nine captured Russian soldiers after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky branded the abduction a 'crime against democracy'

Russian forces have released the mayor of the city of Melitopol who they detained last week, a senior official in the office of Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday.

Officials in Berdyansk and Melitopol were removed and local radio reports on ‘liberation from Nazis’

In its scale and cost, as well as its broader implications for European and international security, Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine constitutes a new low in the foreign policy of Russian president Vladimir Putin. But below the surface, Russia is also following established playbooks in how it deals with…

Yevhen Matveyev, mayor of the city of Dniprorudne in the Zaporizhzia, has reportedly been kidnapped by Russian soldiers

The disappearances are acts of terror, Kyiv said after officials and protesters went missing

Days ago the mayor of Melitopol was also abducted, with a Russian stand-in put in his place as new acting mayor