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Ukrainian Foreign Minister Says Russian-Held Town Is a ‘Death Trap’ with Starving Residents

Sybiha urged the United Nations and aid groups to help evacuate residents as officials said 1,700 people, including 47 children, remain trapped.

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Oct 17 (Reuters) - Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said on Saturday that Russian occupying forces were turning the Ukrainian town of Oleshky into a "death trap" gripped by starvation, and ​urged international organisations to help evacuate its...

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Food supplies to the town of Oleski, in the occupied part of the Kherson region in southern Ukraine, have been cut off since May. The post Ukrainian Foreign Minister calls Russian-controlled town a “death trap,” with residents starving appeared first on in.gr.

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Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andriy Sibikha said on Saturday that Russian occupation forces are turning the Ukrainian city of Olesky into a "death trap" with residents starving to death, and called for... Ukrainian Foreign Minister: Russian-occupied city of Olesky is a "death trap" with residents starving to death - NAVTEMBORIKI

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Ukraine appealed to the United Nations, the International Committee of the Red Cross and partner States in an effort to use the entire service

Oleshki in the temporarily occupied part of the Kherson region was on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe due to the actions of the Russian military. About 1,700 people remain in the city, suffering from a lack of food and medicine and with no safe way to evacuate.

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The city has run out of medicine, the Russian military threatens residents with weapons and takes away food

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LB.ua broke the news in Kyiv, Ukraine on Saturday, October 17, 2026.
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