The russian invaders took the son of the head of the Mariupol movie commission and of the Mariupol movie festival “Movie and You”, Olha Novikova, prisoner. She wrote about that on her Facebook page.
“Friends, my son Oleksii Novikov, born in 2004, a student of Mariupol State University, saw service in the territorial defense forces (TDF) of Mariupol from 25 February 2022. He fell prisoner to the russian troops near Mariupol on 23 April 2022. Today I’ve got a call, holding to ransom – EUR 5,000. Please help me to collect this money. Help me to keep my boy alive! My deadline is tomorrow, on 25 April 2022,” informed the woman.
“This is real terrorism. The boy is imprisoned somewhere around Maloyanisol village. Oleksii Novikov saw service in the TDF. Currently, he is on the list of captives. But we still have no guarantee regarding his survival,” said Petro Andrushchenko, a councilor of Mariupol city head.
Earlier, the occupiers kidnapped the police and the State Service on Emergency Situations workers.
At the moment the occupiers hold about 700 Ukrainian servicemen captive.