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Melitopol Mayor Ivan Fedorov announced on air during the national TV marathon that a "few hours ago it became known that the honorary consul of Bulgaria was kidnapped in Melitopol." The mayor also added that as of April 23, more than 50 of his colleagues "were kidnapped across the country, and today 29 are in the prisons."
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