Ukraine Condemns 'Severe Humanitarian Crisis' Caused by Russia in Occupied Oleshky, Kherson Oblast
Ukraine says Russian forces are blocking aid and evacuations as about 6,000 people remain in four occupied settlements, including 2,000 in Oleshky.
- On Wednesday, May 6, Ukraine's Foreign Ministry appealed to the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross over a "severe humanitarian crisis" in Russian-occupied parts of Kherson Oblast.
- The population in settlements like Oleshky has collapsed from approximately 40,000 to 6,000 as critical infrastructure including electricity and gas has been destroyed, leaving residents in dire conditions.
- Russian forces are "artificially blocking evacuations and obstructing the delivery of essential goods, food, and medicine," according to the ministry, while residents navigate mined routes and frequent drone attacks.
- Ukrainian authorities have received more than 220 direct requests for evacuation as trapped civilians face starvation with no safe exits or food supplies available in occupied Oleshky.
- Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights Dmytro Lubinets termed the situation "deliberate terrorism," noting that forced displacement and starvation as methods of warfare violate the Geneva Conventions.
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Drone-and-mine siege: Ukraine takes Oleshky crisis to UN as 2,000 civilians starve in occupied city
Ukraine's Ministry of Foreign Affairs on 6 May appealed to the United Nations and the International Committee of the Red Cross over what it called a "severe humanitarian crisis" in Russian-occupied parts of Kherson region. About 2,000 civilians remain in occupied Oleshky on the eastern bank of the Dnipro, cut off from food and medicine for months as mined roads, FPV drones, and the wreckage of the Kakhovka dam choke off every exit, BBC Verify re…
Kyiv urges intl community to save Ukrainians in occupied Kherson region; over 6,000 people may need humanitarian aid
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine (MFA) is drawing the attention of the international community to a serious deterioration of the humanitarian situation in certain areas of the temporarily occupied territories of Kherson region as a result of crimes committed by the Russian occupiers, who are grossly violating international humanitarian law.
City of Oleshki and nearby settlements in the occupied territory of the Russian Federation in the Kherson region remain without proper access to water, food, medical care, and the Russians do not allow people to leave the danger zone.
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