Ukraine: Oleshky Residents Evacuate War-Ravaged City
A rare joint humanitarian effort delivered food and medicine and offered remaining residents a choice of evacuation or supplies.
- On Friday, an aid convoy of 25 buses arrived in Russian-occupied Oleshky to deliver food and medicine, marking the fourth day of the most significant ceasefire since Russia's full-scale invasion over four years ago.
- U.S. first lady Melania Trump brokered the local ceasefire, while Pope Leo XIV participated in deliberations with Russian and Ukrainian leaders to facilitate the rare joint humanitarian effort.
- Demining operations preceding the convoy's arrival resulted in one Russian sapper and one other person being killed, yet officials successfully evacuated more than 750 residents from the city.
- Ukraine's human rights ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets and Russia's lead representative Yana Lantratova coordinated the rare joint operation, though Lubinets noted, "The problem is that a lot of people are staying."
- This humanitarian effort continues through Sunday evening, with residents offered the choice to travel 450 kilometers through Russian-held Crimea to reach Ukraine or remain in the city.
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Ceasefire in Olezhky: Evacuation from the Ukrainian front city
Hundreds evacuated from Russian-occupied front-line city
Hundreds of Ukrainian civilians who had been trapped in the Russian-occupied front-line city of Oleshky were evacuated on Friday as a part of the ceasefire first lady Melania Trump recently brokered. The town itself is located in the southern Ukrainian region of Kherson, and it has been under continuous Russian occupation since the first months […]
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INTELLINEWSUkraine: Oleshky residents evacuate war-ravaged city
Under the local ceasefire, an aid convoy of 25 buses arrived with humanitarian aid and as transport for fleeing Oleshky residents. The Ukrainian city has been occupied by Russia since 2022 and faces food shortages.
JERSON, Ukraine (AP) — The evacuees from Russia-occupied Oleshky began on Friday the long journey to leave the war-torn region in bus convoys, on the fourth day of the most significant truce...
The city where up to now some 2,000 residents remained, in the region of Jersón, becomes the epicenter of an unprecedented agreement between Kiev and Moscow for the evacuation of a town taken by Russia since 2022. Hundreds of residents who have been exposed for years to hunger and the dangers of war will begin a new life in Ukraine and Russia, while the war remains unalterable on the rest of the fronts.
A humanitarian mission arrived in the war-torn, Russian-occupied town of Oleshky in Ukraine's Kherson region on Friday, officials said.
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