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Occupiers kidnapped Oleksandr Knyha, the Director of Kherson Regional Music and Drama Theater and Deputy of the Regional Council

He was taken on Wednesday morning in an unknown direction.

Occupiers kidnapped Oleksandr Knyha, the Director of Kherson Regional Music and Drama Theater and Deputy of the Regional Council

Russian occupiers in the morning kidnapped Oleksandr Knyha, the Director of the Kherson Regional Music and Drama Theater and Deputy of the Kherson Regional Council.

This was announced by Oleksandr Tkachenko, the Minister of Culture and Information Policy on its Telegram channel.

"Founder of one of the most famous international theater festivals in Ukraine "Melpomena Tavrii". We call on the world cultural community to make all possible and impossible efforts for its release as soon as possible! The whole world should know about it!" - said the Minister.

“This morning, Russian terrorists in their fascist manner kidnapped and removed in an unknown direction Oleksandr Knyha, the Director of the Kherson Regional Music and Drama Theater and the Deputy of the Kherson Regional Council. Founder of one of the most famous international theater festivals in Ukraine - "Melpomena Tavrii."

We call on the world cultural community to make all possible and impossible efforts for its release as soon as possible! The whole world should know about it!”

Russian forces in temporarily occupied territories systematically kidnap representatives of local authorities and activists who oppose the enemy occupation. One of the first kidnapped was the Mayor of Melitopol city.

Yesterday, the city of Berdiansk reported about the kidnapping of People’s Deputy Oleksandr Ponomarev.

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