This is video from a Ukrainian online news site.<br /> <br />It shows the town counselor in the eastern city of Horlivka last week.<br /> <br />The website says he tried to remove the flag of pro-Russian separatists from town hall.<br /> <br />'Over my dead body', one of the men yells at him in the video.<br /> <br />'Kill this so-and-so' someone says.<br /> <br />He seems to walk away but within hours, he would be dead.<br /> <br />Police say his tortured body was discovered in a river.<br /> <br />They think he was dumped alive and left to drown.<br /> <br />In nearby Slaviansk, the latest flashpoint for separatists, a representative for the armed group says his men weren't responsible for what happened to the counselor.<br /> <br />(SOUNDBITE) (Russian) SLAVIANSK SEPARATIST REPRESENTATIVE, YEVGENY GORBIK, SAYING, (REGARDING MISSING HORLIVKA CITY DEPUTY VOLODYMYR RYBAK):<br /> <br />"Maybe it's a criminal argument or maybe it's political, most likely it's revenge. Maybe he started to cooperate, who knows?"<br /> <br />The city councilor's apparent
