The police chief of Mariupol, Donetsk region, was abducted amid Friday clashes, Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov said.
“Today is a very hard day. Pointless cruelty, stupidity and deaths. The biggest regret is that the confrontation is deepening. The Mariupol police chief was abducted and several police officers were killed,” he wrote on Facebook.
Earlier the disappearance of Mariupol police chief Valeriy Androschuk was reported by Ukrainian independent deputy Oleh Liashko. “We cannot find him, he held out to the last,” the deputy wrote on Facebook.
Liashko said later that the police chief “had been abducted by the terrorists.”
