Reunited After 1,711 Days: Oleshky Evacuees Return to Ukraine Under Melania Trump-Brokered Ceasefire
The evacuees are expected to return to Ukraine after a ceasefire opened a rare escape route from the Russian-occupied city.
- Evacuees from Russian-occupied Oleshky reached Ukraine on Saturday after a humanitarian ceasefire brokered by US First Lady Melania Trump ended a four-year siege of the devastated southern city.
- Oleshky fell under Russian control in 2022, trapping around 2,000 residents without food, water, electricity, or medicine for months. Trump described the city as being "on the brink of disaster" before negotiating the truce.
- Following a two-day demining operation completed Thursday, 25 buses transported 750 residents out on Friday. Dmytro reunited with his wife, Larisa, on Saturday afternoon, embracing her after 1,711 days of separation.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed the safe crossing, stating, "As of now, Ukrainian citizens from Oleshky have crossed the Ukrainian border." He pledged all arrivals will receive necessary humanitarian assistance.
- Ukraine's Human Rights Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets, who personally escorted evacuees to safety, told Russia, "I suggested some new ideas to my Russian colleague yesterday" to address food and medicine crises in other occupied villages.
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Residents of Russian-occupied Oleshky return to Ukraine
CHERNIHIV REGION, Ukraine — Starved and exhausted residents from the Russian-controlled town of Oleshky crossed into Ukraine on Saturday in a major return of civilians under the first humanitarian truce of its kind in more than four years of the…
U.S. First Lady Melania Trump conducted an evacuation from the southern Ukrainian front city Olezhky occupied by Moscow's troops. The civilians returned to Ukraine on detours.
People evacuated from Oleshky, Ukraine, which is under Russian occupation, arrived in Belarus on Saturday (October 31) to prepare to return to Ukraine. This is part of a large-scale relief operation conducted under the most significant ceasefire agreement since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine four and a half years ago.
Reunited after 1,711 days: Oleshky evacuees return to Ukraine under Melania Trump-brokered ceasefire
By Ivana Kottasová, Daria Tarasova-Markina, Kosta Gak, CNN (CNN) — Dmytro had not seen his wife Larisa for 1,711 days. He had been counting.Waiting near the border between Ukraine and Belarus, his nervous eyes were on the horizon, looking for the bus carrying Larisa and others fleeing the occupied southern Ukrainian town of Oleshky.When the
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