THE mayor of Melitopoliscity in southern Ukraine understood by Russiansnarrated today by Paris how him arrested the Russian soldiersat 11 March and addressed appeal to French to defy the propaganda of Moscow.
“I was in a crisis center in Melitopol, Russian soldiers came, they told me they were arresting me on the pretext that I was financing an extremist Ukrainian party, the existence of which I did not even know existed,” Ivan Fedorov told BFMTV.
“They took me to prison, in a cell where I spent many hours without any means of communication, I could not even call my parents. “I heard screams of torture from the cells next door,” he described.
After abduction of Ivan Fedorovon March 11, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky called on his French counterpart Emanuel Macron and German Chancellor Olaf Solz to help secure his release.
THE Fedorov was left free a few days later: the Ukrainian presidency announced on March 16, a video showing Zelensky talking to him on the phone. Then, on March 21, Tatiana Moskalkova, in charge of human rights issues in the Kremlin, announced her exchange with nine Russian detainees.
“The Russian soldiers “I was abducted to show my colleagues what they can do to those who refuse to cooperate with Russia,” the mayor told reporters after meeting with French Senate President Gerard Larcher.
THE Fedorov He also said that he had learned today, while in Paris, that Russian soldiers had gone to teachers’ homes in Melitopolis to force them to adopt Russian school curricula.
“They want to impose new programs on schools from April 1,” he noted.
“It simply came to our notice then. “It is dangerous for children to return to schools, at a time when Melitopoli is being bombed every day.”
He called on the French to defy Russian propaganda.
“THE Russian propaganda it works very well and EU citizens do not understand what is happening. They believe that the war is far away (…). “Citizens need to understand one thing: if you are not united in helping us win this war, the war will reach the European Union.”
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