UPDATE: Ukrinform reported today that kidnappers had released Aleksandra Shevchenko, director of School No. 42 in Lugansk.



The Department of Public Affairs of the Interior Ministry Main Directorate in Lugansk confirmed the story, but had no further details.

Lugansk City Council Member Igor Lisko reached Shevchenko by telephone and commented on his Facebook that her condition was "normal," if that could be said "after an abduction and threat."



UNIAN reports (translated by The Interpreter):

In Lugansk, four armed men in masks and camouflage have kidnapped the director of School No. 42, Aleksandra Shevchenko. UNIAN was told by the Interior Ministry's public relations department that violence was used against the woman, and that she was taken out of the building at gunpoint, put in a car and driven off to an unknown destination. An investigative team has set off for the scene. Steps are being taken to establish the whereabouts of the victim.

Earlier, 0642.com.ua quoted the blogger Nikolai Levchenko reporting on the attack: