Several weeks have passed since Ukrainian teenager Vlad Buryak was reportedly seized.
According to his father Oleg Buryak, “he’s been taken hostage” by Russian troops.
Buryak, the head of the military administration in Zaporizhzhia, the capital of the Zaporizhia region, believes Vlad was targeted because of his senior government role.
While Russian forces now control four districts in Zaporizhia, a southeastern region on the Dnieper river, Buryak’s zone remains in Ukrainian hands.