Melitopol mayor, Ivan Fedorov, described on Monday the interrogations when he was held for nearly a week by Russian forces last month, stressing that they had been "hard" and included "psychological" but not physical torture.
"Russian soldiers assumed that they would be welcomed, but they were not," Fedorov told reporters. "They came to me at night with five or seven soldiers and spoke for about four or five hours, hard dialogue."
Russian troops captured Ivan Fedorov in March. Later he was released in exchange for Russian soldiers.
