Aid Convoy Sets Off for Russian-Held Town of Oleshky in Ukraine, Izvestia Says
The mission aims to deliver food and medicine and evacuate residents, with officials saying up to 750 people could leave safely.
- On Friday, a joint humanitarian mission entered Oleshky, a Russian-occupied city in Ukraine's Kherson region, as officials from both countries coordinated evacuation and aid delivery during a localized ceasefire.
- The mission follows an 80-hour truce brokered by U.S. First Lady Melania Trump, providing a rare pause in fighting to address critical shortages of food, water, and medicine facing the town's approximately 2,000 residents.
- Ukrainian Human Rights Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets and Russian counterpart Yana Lantratova coordinated the operation, deploying 25 buses and ambulances to allow residents to choose relocation to Russian-controlled or Ukrainian-controlled territory.
- Authorities face complications as reports indicate many residents fear interrogation or detention by Russian forces, requiring officials to monitor the operation closely to ensure safe passage for those choosing to leave.
- Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov emphasized the operation is an isolated humanitarian case that should not signal broader ceasefire prospects, with the truce scheduled to expire Sunday evening.
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Twenty-five buses, ambulances and other vehicles have entered the town under Russian control. Forced transfers are feared for residents who want to leave the area, as happened in Mariupol in 2022. And the attacks with Russian drones and missiles on Ukrainian territory are not stopped, scheduled trilateral talks between Washington, Moscow and Kiev in November.
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Evacuated Oleshky residents begin the long journey out of the war-ravaged region
Russian and Ukrainian officials say residents wishing to leave the war-ravaged city of Oleshky have been evacuated. The evacuations Friday came on the fourth day of the most significant truce since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began 4½ years ago.…
A convoy arrived in Oleshky, occupied by Russia, to deliver food and medicine, and to evacuate residents.
Russia and Ukraine Evacuate Oleshky: What We Know
Residents of the Russian-held town of Oleshky in southern Ukraine began evacuating on Friday, marking the first joint humanitarian operation between Russia and Ukraine in nearly five years of conflict. This operation involved significant coordination and was linked to efforts that included US First Lady Melania Trump and Pope Leo. The primary goals for Russia […]
The approximately 2,000 residents who remained in the city faced severe shortages of food, medicine and other basic goods.
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