Evacuation Begins as Aid Enters Stricken Ukrainian City
Officials said 527 residents want to move to Ukraine as the truce allows aid delivery and bus evacuations to continue.
- The evacuation of residents has begun in the occupied city of Oleshky, following a humanitarian mission reportedly brokered by Melania Trump and coordinated by Davyd Arakhamia.
- A truce between Russia and Ukraine has been in effect for 80 hours, enabling the humanitarian mission in Oleshky and allowing officials from both sides to coordinate the evacuation effort.
- Ukrainian Prime Minister Serhii Koretskyi told the Verkhovna Rada that 527 residents of Oleshky have requested relocation to Ukrainian territory.
- On the ground, Ukrainian Ombudsperson Dmytro Lubinets and Russian Ombudsperson Yana Lantratova are overseeing the operation as residents board buses to leave for Russian or Ukrainian territory.
- The truce, which began on Tuesday, October 27, will remain in force until late in the evening on Sunday, November 1, as the humanitarian operation continues.
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People's defenders on each side organize citizens' departure to Russian or Ukrainian territory from the occupied town of Jersón province
Static image taken from a dateless drone video, released on September 12, 2026, shows destroyed buildings in Oleshky, Kherson region, Russia-controlled Ukraine. 34th Navy Brigade "Borysfen"/Disclosure via Reuters The evacuation of part of the population in Oleshky, in southern Ukraine and occupied by Russia, and the distribution of humanitarian aid in the city began on Friday (30), said a high-level authority of the Ukrainian government.
Evacuations of speakers from Oleşki, a city occupied by the Russians in southern Ukraine, in which a humanitarian truce has been in force for more than three days, started Friday, announces Russian and Ukrainian officials, reports AFP.
Selo, the Russian human rights mediator, Iana Lantratova, who is in Olechky, the residents who want to join Russia and those who wanted to join Ukraine "took buses" to leave the city.
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