Evacuees From Russian-Occupied Oleshky Reunited with Relatives in Ukraine
Some 750 evacuees were reunited with relatives after traveling through Russia and Belarus under a temporary ceasefire, officials said.
- On Saturday, evacuees from Russian-occupied Oleshky crossed into Ukrainian-held territory and reunited with families at a site in Chernihiv, wrapped in blue and yellow Ukrainian flags as they stepped off buses.
- A ceasefire brokered by First Lady Melania Trump took effect Tuesday in the Kherson region, enabling roads to Oleshky to be cleared of mines and humanitarian aid delivered until Sunday 1 November.
- Travellers initially crossed through Crimea and Russia to Homel in Belarus before reaching Ukraine, while Ukrainian authorities restricted disclosure of evacuee numbers to safeguard those remaining and protect future humanitarian missions.
- Volunteers from the Red Cross, Doctors Without Borders, and World Central Kitchen assisted at the Ukrainian-Belarusian border, where the estimated 2,000 residents of Oleshky had been offered choices to relocate or remain.
- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy highlighted the broader conflict, writing that in the last two weeks of October there were "more than 30 Russian strikes on critical parts of our power grid.
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Refugees from the besieged southern town of Oleshky have returned to free Ukrainian territory and reunited with family members. Buses filled with the beneficiaries of a short-term ceasefire crossed back into Ukraine after a roundabout, U.S.-mediated journey took them through the nation’s occupied southern region to a Russian flight that landed in Belarus, and then finally back over the border.
Hundreds of Ukrainians who evacuated the Russian-occupied city have been reunited with their families on the Ukrainian side of the border after a local ceasefire allowed them to leave the city.
Evacuated from a competitive Ukrainian city Oleschky back with her relatives
Residents of Olechky, a city in southern Ukraine under Russian occupation, arrived in their country after being evacuated through a truce.
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