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.
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.
Residents of the city of Olechky under Russian occupation in southern Ukraine, where a humanitarian crisis has been taking place in recent weeks, were evacuated Friday, 30 October, to Russia and then Belarus, in order to join the territories under Kiev control. Some 2,000 inhabitants, compared with 24,000 before the Russian invasion, were still in that town, according to Kiev estimates. Emmanuelle Chaze, correspondent France 24 in Kiev, explaine…
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