Ukraine to urge UN to take action over hunger in Russian-occupied Oleshky
Ukraine says 6,000 residents, including 200 children, are cut off from food and medicine as Russian forces block humanitarian access.
- The All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations appealed to Pope Leo XIV and international leaders to prevent mass starvation in Russian-occupied Oleshky, warning the city faces a complete military blockade and humanitarian catastrophe.
- According to council estimates, more than 6,000 residents, including approximately 200 children, remain trapped in Oleshky, with no confirmed humanitarian food deliveries reaching the settlement since late May 2026.
- Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha intends to raise the crisis before the UN General Assembly, reporting residents "were dying from hunger and cold" and stating "the occupiers are not allowing humanitarian aid through."
- The Kremlin said on Monday that Oleshky has critical problems with food and medicine supplies, though officials claimed the Russian military is working to resolve these issues in the occupied Kherson region.
- Although Oleshky sits only four kilometers across the Dnipro River from liberated Kherson, destroyed bridges, intense frontline combat, and dense minefields prevent residents from crossing to safety or receiving outside aid.
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The southern Ukrainian town of Oleshky is facing food and medicine shortages and people are unable to evacuate. Russia claims its military is solving the problem.
Ukrainian authorities demand the evacuation of the Russian-controlled Ukrainian city on Dnipro and accuse Russia of making aid deliveries and evacuations almost impossible.
Kremlin says military is working to resolve humanitarian crisis in Russian-controlled Oleshky
The Kremlin said on Monday that Oleshky, a town in the part of Ukraine's Kherson region that Russia controls, had critical problems with food and medicine supplies, but that Russia's military was working to resolve them.
Milan, 21 Sep. (askanews) - The situation in the Kherson region, under Russian control, is "critical": the spokesman of the Kremlin Dmitry Peskov admits, citing problems related to food and medicine supplies. "The Kiev regime is really doing everything to hinder these deliveries," says Peskov, attributing to Ukraine the responsibility for these "problems." Ukrainian officials renewed their appeals to evacuate the population from the area, accusi…
Residents of Oleshky in the south of Ukraine are in a humanitarian crisis, Ukraine's human rights ombudsman told the Kyiv Independent. People are starving.
Council of Churches calls on intl organizations to prevent humanitarian catastrophe in Oleshky, Kherson region
The Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations (UCCRO), which brings together diverse religious communities, including Orthodox Christians, Roman and Greek Catholics, Protestants, Muslims, and Jews, issues this appeal concerning the humanitarian catastrophe in the city of Oleshky, Kherson region.
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