Governor of Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Olexandr Starukh, announced the capture on his Facebook page on Sunday morning.

“Military crimes are becoming systematic. The mayor of Dniproudnogo Matveev Sergeevich was abducted,” he said in the post according to a Google translation.

Ukraine’s Foreign Minister, Dmytro Kuleba, accused Russian forces of a “turn to terror.”

“I call on all states & international organizations to stop Russian terror against Ukraine and democracy,” he tweeted.