Aid Convoy Sets Off for Russian-Held Town of Oleshky in Ukraine, Izvestia Says
The rare joint mission will let residents leave or stay with continued aid as officials say about 2,000 people remain in the city.
- On Friday, October 30, 2026, a humanitarian convoy of 25 buses and ambulances entered Russian-occupied Oleshky, Ukraine, to deliver food and medicine and evacuate residents under a US-brokered ceasefire.
- First Lady Melania Trump brokered the localized ceasefire, addressing a humanitarian crisis in the devastated town where residents faced severe shortages of food, water, and medicine for months.
- Ukrainian Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets and Russian Human Rights Commissioner Yana Lantratova coordinated the mission, with Lubinets saying, "Everyone who wishes to leave Oleshky will be given the opportunity to do so safely."
- Residents may choose to evacuate to either Ukraine or Russia, though many locals expressed concerns regarding potential "filtration" and coercive screenings by occupying forces during the evacuation journey.
- Despite the mission marking the longest ceasefire since the 2022 invasion, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov described the operation as a "special case" that is "difficult to extrapolate" to broader peace efforts.
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Twenty-five buses, ambulances and other vehicles have entered the town under Russian control. Forced transfers are feared for residents who want to leave the area, as happened in Mariupol in 2022. And the attacks with Russian drones and missiles on Ukrainian territory are not stopped, scheduled trilateral talks between Washington, Moscow and Kiev in November.
A convoy arrived in Oleshky, occupied by Russia, to deliver food and medicine, and to evacuate residents.
Russia and Ukraine Evacuate Oleshky: What We Know
Residents of the Russian-held town of Oleshky in southern Ukraine began evacuating on Friday, marking the first joint humanitarian operation between Russia and Ukraine in nearly five years of conflict. This operation involved significant coordination and was linked to efforts that included US First Lady Melania Trump and Pope Leo. The primary goals for Russia […]
The approximately 2,000 residents who remained in the city faced severe shortages of food, medicine and other basic goods.
Residents of the city of Olechky under Russian occupation in southern Ukraine, where a humanitarian crisis has been taking place in recent weeks, were evacuated Friday, 30 October, to Russia and then Belarus, in order to join the territories under Kiev control. Some 2,000 inhabitants, compared with 24,000 before the Russian invasion, were still in that town, according to Kiev estimates. Emmanuelle Chaze, correspondent France 24 in Kiev, explaine…
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