Aid mission set to enter Oleshky as a localized Russia-Ukraine truce holds for a third day
Humanitarian aid is set to enter the city as Russian and Ukrainian officials say the ceasefire has held and roads are being cleared of mines.
- On Friday, humanitarian aid is poised to enter the Russian-occupied city of Oleshky as a localized ceasefire brokered by U.S. First Lady Melania Trump stretches into a third day.
- The truce aims to deliver food, fuel, and medical supplies to 2,000 people trapped in the city while testing whether military commanders can uphold political agreements to halt hostilities.
- Ukrainian ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets and his Russian counterpart, Yana Lantratova, confirmed the ceasefire is holding. Both sides are working to clear roads of landmines for safe passage.
- In the nearby city of Kherson, the pause has brought rare stillness. Local coffee kiosk owner Nataliia Myronenko said the quiet provides relief, though residents understand it will end soon.
- Should the ceasefire hold through November 1, Ukrainian officials intend to replicate these local pauses along other parts of the front line to facilitate future safe passage and major agreements.
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‘If this works, it will be the first real ceasefire across a large stretch of the front’: Russia and Ukraine maintain truce in occupied Oleshky for more than two days
Russia and Ukraine have halted hostilities around the occupied city of Oleshky since October 27. The Verkhovna Rada’s human rights commissioner, Dmytro Lubinets, confirmed on the morning of October 29 that the ceasefire had held for more than two days. Russia’s human rights commissioner, Yana Lantratova, said humanitarian aid — “food, fuel, medicine, and hygiene products” — had been sent to Oleshky.
In Ukraine, the local cease-fire announced by Melania Trump for a humanitarian operation seems to have been taking place since the morning of 27 October, around Olechky, the occupied city of the southern part of the country. At the same time, the Nordic leaders, who are among the strongest supporters of Kiev in the face of the ongoing Russian invasion since 2022, then called its Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky, according to Kiev.
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A Russian drone strike killed at least 14 people on a crowded rail platform in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro on Thursday, and five more people were killed in daytime strikes on other cities, officials said, even as a local truce in Kherson raised cautious hopes for a resumption of diplomacy.
Ukrainian Verkhovna Rada Human Rights Commissioner Dmytro Lubinets said Thursday that demining work in Oleshki in the Kherson region was proceeding successfully, with a humanitarian aid package to be delivered on Friday.
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