Residents of Russian-controlled Ukrainian town arrive in Belarus
The evacuation moved starving residents out of the war zone as a U.S.-backed truce held and officials said about 1,700 people remained.
- On Saturday, three planes carrying residents evacuated from the Russian-controlled Ukrainian town of Oleshky landed at Gomel airport in Belarus, the Belta state news agency reported.
- Starving and exhausted residents were evacuated by bus on Friday as part of a joint relief operation by opposing sides, marking the first cooperation in four years and eight months of war.
- Evacuees traveled by bus via the Crimean peninsula to the Russian town of Anapa before flying to Belarus and will proceed to Ukraine via a border crossing, Belta said.
- Upon arrival in Gomel, rescue workers, medical teams, and Red Cross volunteers met the group to provide immediate humanitarian assistance and support.
- This effort marks a rare instance of direct coordination between opposing sides, serving as the first collaborative civilian transfer since the war began four years and eight months ago.
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Civilians from Russian-occupied Oleshky arrive in Belarus on their way to Ukraine
Evacuees from Russian-occupied Oleshky in Ukraine have arrived in Belarus as part of a major rescue operation. This operation took place under the most significant truce since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine over four years ago. Civilians began their journey…
Three planes transporting evacuated civilians from the city of Oleşki, located in southern Ukraine and under Russian control, landed at Gomel airport in Belarus, reported on Saturday the press agency BelTA,...
Residents of Oleshko in the southern Ukrainian region of Kherson have arrived in Gomel, Belarus, after being evacuated by Russian military planes from the Black Sea resort of Anapa on Friday, from where they will continue their journey to Ukraine. The evacuated residents are being accompanied by Ukrainian Commissioner for Human Rights Dmytro Lubinec.
On Saturday, three planes with civilians from the Russian occupied front city of Olezhky landed in Belarus. The evacuated people are now being taken further to Ukraine. It was the first process of this kind in the war, which has been going on for more than four years. For this, the USA had arranged a local ceasefire, which will continue until tomorrow.
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Residents of Russian-controlled Ukrainian town arrive in Belarus
Hundreds of starving and exhausted residents left the town of Oleshky on Friday during a US-backed local ceasefire, the first of its kind and the longest humanitarian pause in the war, which is nearing its fifth year.
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