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Russian forces as Putin’s invasion force seeks to establish a pro-Russia puppet administration in the territory it has captured. And now a shocking report from Ukrainian political pressure group The Honest Movement claims the number of officials abducted by Russia could be as high as 13.

Vladimir Putin has been humiliated after a kidnapped Ukrainian mayor has been freed from Russian soldiers. Melitopol mayor Ivan Fedorov was reportedly abducted by Putin's forces in their siege of the city as Russia wages war on Ukraine.

Russian troops abducting a Ukrainian mayor after he "refused to cooperate with the enemy" which officials have since branded a war crime. The State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection of Ukraine uploaded the clip following the frightening kidnap on Friday (March 11).In the video, a person can be seen being escorted out of the city's crisis centre by a team of around ten Russian troops while his head is covered in a black bag.President Volodymyr Zelensky compared the soldiers to “ISIS terrorists” following the release of the footage, believed to show the abudction of the mayor of Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov.“They have transitioned into a new stage of terror, in which they try to physically liquidate representatives of Ukraine’s lawful local authorities," he said in a video on Friday.It has been reported that the prosecutor’s office of the Luhansk People’s Republic, a Moscow-supported rebel region in eastern Ukraine, alleged there was a criminal case against the mayor and accused him of “terrorist activities.” However Ukraine's Foreign ministry refuted the claims and said the abduction was a war crime before urging Ukraine's allies to add pressure on Russia in response to the ongoing attacks and the kidnap, reports New York Post.