The Russian military has taken control of the town of Slavutich, home to staff at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, briefly arresting the mayor and sparking pro-Ukrainian protests, Ukrainian authorities said today.
“I have been released, everything is fine, as far as possible given the occupation,” Slavutich mayor Yuri Fomicev told AFP by telephone, whose arrest was announced this morning by the Kyiv regional administration.
After his release, he spoke during an anti-Russian demonstration, which he said was attended by 5,000 people, and assured that Russian troops would soon leave the city. He then clarified to the French Agency that they will retire tomorrow.
“The Russian invaders invaded Slavutich and occupied the city hospital,” the military administration of the Kiev region, which includes Slavutich, a city of 25,000, 160 km north of the capital, was created in the Telegram this morning. after the Chernobyl accident in 1986.
Protesters unfurled a huge Ukrainian flag and headed to the hospital, according to regional authorities, who posted photos of dozens of people gathering around the Ukrainian flag and shouting “Glory to Ukraine.”
According to the same source, Russian forces fired into the air and used flash bombs against the crowd.
Later in the night, the mayor of the city said in a video posted on Facebook that at least 3 people lost their lives, without specifying when and under what conditions.
“It’s dead, it’s true. “Three confirmed deaths so far,” he said. “We have not yet identified them all,” he added, adding that “there are civilians among themselves.”
“We strongly defended our city,” but “our forces were completely unequal,” he said.
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