Melania Trump Brokers Localized Ceasefire for Oleshky Aid Mission
Melania Trump helped secure a pause so aid workers can deliver doctors, medicine, food and water before evacuation corridors open.
- On Tuesday at 3 a.m., a localized ceasefire began in Russia-occupied Oleshky, Ukraine, after First Lady Melania Trump brokered the agreement to allow humanitarian aid to reach stranded civilians.
- Pope Leo XIV urged humanitarian aid for Oleshky earlier this month, prompting Trump to coordinate efforts between Russian and Ukrainian negotiators. Up to 2,000 people remain stranded due to explosive mines and drone attacks.
- The local truce is scheduled to last through Saturday, providing a window for essential supplies. Despite the pause, Russia launched 16 ballistic missiles and 280 drones overnight, causing casualties in Kyiv and Kharkiv, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.
- Yaroslav Shanko, head of the Kherson city administration, acknowledged the ceasefire but noted the "lull like this is sometimes even frightening," emphasizing deep mistrust of Russia remains.
- The aid mission precedes U.S.-brokered peace talks scheduled for next month. Separately, Bloomberg reported Tuesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin is preparing phone discussions with leaders of Finland and Norway regarding a potential peace agreement.
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The ceasefire, mediated by the First Lady of the United States, Melania Trump, seeks to facilitate the entry of humanitarian aid and the evacuation of up to 2,000 people trapped in this town in southern Ukraine. Kiev and Moscow have confirmed the beginning of the pause in the fighting, but the bombings continue in other parts of the country, including the Ukrainian capital, where Russian attacks have caused victims and damage to infrastructure.
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MYKOLAIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia and Ukraine began observing a localized ceasefire in a devastated southern Ukrainian city on Tuesday, before a planned humanitarian mission brokered by U.S. first lady Melania Trump, but Moscow kept up its deadly missile attacks on other cities in the meantime.
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