The UN has documented almost 40 cases of politicians, journalists and activists being abducted.
Ms Zalizetskaya, the director of local news agency RIA Melitopol, wrote on Facebook that her father had been detained after her meeting with the Russian-installed leader of the city, where she refused to end her criticism of the invasion.
A spokesperson for the UN's Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights , whose monitoring mission in Ukraine has been documenting the abductions, told the BBC that those being targeted "are mostly representatives of local communities, journalists and people who were vocal about their pro-Ukrainian positions".
Some sources have suggested that a hack of a Ukrainian digital services app in January may have helped Russia identify targets, while the Royal United Services Institute has speculated that a hack of the Ukrainian national car insurance registry may have allowed security services to identify the locations of targets.
"They didn't touch me physically but trust me, seven armed men were enough to make their position clear," Mr Fedorov said. "In the next cell someone was being tortured - there were screams which generated plenty of psychological pressure." "It didn't happen at all here... nobody, even from sort of pro-Russian parties agreed to do what Russian soldiers wanted them to do".Ms Shkrum, a pro-Western MP, told the BBC that she was warned by the Ukrainian security services that she was likely on a Russian hit-list and was warned to avoid her apartment in Kyiv.
Mattia Nelles, a Ukrainian political analyst, told the BBC that his uncle, a former medic with the Ukrainian army who fought in the Donbas from 2016-2018, had been targeted by Russian soldiers in the eastern city of Svatove.
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