Ukrainian foreign minister says Russian-held town is a 'death trap' with starving residents
Sybiha said 1,700 residents, including 47 children, face severe shortages as Ukraine urges safe evacuation and humanitarian access.
- On Saturday, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha declared the Russian-occupied town of Oleshky a "death trap," urging international organizations to secure evacuation corridors for remaining residents.
- Sybiha reported that families survive on leftover vegetables and preserves while the hospital lacks medicine, and dozens of bodies remain unburied because Russians forbid residents from burying the dead.
- The town's population has plummeted from 24,000 to around 1,700, including 47 children, according to Danielle Bell of the United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission; Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy described the situation as "genocide."
- Russian President Vladimir Putin pledged to Pope Leo on Friday to cooperate on delivering supplies, yet local prosecutors reported Russian aerial bombs wounded 40 people in nearby Kherson on Saturday.
- While the Kremlin acknowledged supply problems in September, Ukraine has repeatedly demanded humanitarian access to the east bank of the Dnipro River, stating these appeals remain unanswered.
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Ukraine FM says Russian-held town is a 'death trap' with starving residents, Zelensky says genocide
Oleshky had a pre-war population of 24,000 people and is now home to around 1,700 residents, including 47 children, according to the United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine.
Food supplies to the town of Oleski, in the occupied part of the Kherson region in southern Ukraine, have been cut off since May. The post Ukrainian Foreign Minister calls Russian-controlled town a “death trap,” with residents starving appeared first on in.gr.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Andriy Sibiga emphasizes that the Russians are trying to turn the Ukrainian city of Oleshka in the Kherson region into a deadly trap.
Ukrainians warn of disaster in Oleshki: Residents eat snails to survive, bodies remain on the streets - There are no more medicines in the hospital. Dozens of bodies lie on the streets or in houses because the Russians are forbidding residents to bury them, Sibiha said
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sibih said on Saturday that Russian occupation forces are turning the city of Oleshki in Kherson Oblast into a "trap of death" where hunger reigns, and called on international organizations to help evacuate residents.
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