Ukraine to urge UN to take action over hunger in Russian-occupied Oleshky
The drone drop reached 100 locations as civilians faced food, water and medicine shortages under a Russian blockade, officials said.
- The All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations appealed to Pope Leo XIV and international leaders to prevent mass starvation in Russian-occupied Oleshky, warning the city faces a complete military blockade and humanitarian catastrophe.
- According to council estimates, more than 6,000 residents, including approximately 200 children, remain trapped in Oleshky, with no confirmed humanitarian food deliveries reaching the settlement since late May 2026.
- Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha intends to raise the crisis before the UN General Assembly, reporting residents "were dying from hunger and cold" and stating "the occupiers are not allowing humanitarian aid through."
- The Kremlin said on Monday that Oleshky has critical problems with food and medicine supplies, though officials claimed the Russian military is working to resolve these issues in the occupied Kherson region.
- Although Oleshky sits only four kilometers across the Dnipro River from liberated Kherson, destroyed bridges, intense frontline combat, and dense minefields prevent residents from crossing to safety or receiving outside aid.
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Thousands of people suffer from hunger in the blocked front city of Oleschky. It is not only there that the war is increasingly directed against civilians.
6000 people are encircled in the Russian occupied Olezhky. Moscow refuses to deliver or evacuate aid. Ukraine wanted to supply the starving people with drones from the air – that was what Russian soldiers had only been waiting for.
Ukraine Delivers Food By Drone As Russian-Occupied Oleshky Faces Starvation
Oleshky, a Ukrainian city occupied by Russian forces 9 kilometers from Kherson, is on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe. Since 2023, the city has been without electricity, gas, or drinking water. Now, Ukrainian teams are airlifting food supplies into the embattled area.
Tetiana Hasanenko, head of the military administration of the Russian-occupied Oleškis municipality, stated in an interview with the Ukrinform news agency published on Wednesday that Russian soldiers stationed in the city are confiscating food dropped by Ukrainian drones on starving residents.
The humanitarian situation in the Russian-occupied city of Olezhky is getting worse. People are threatening to starve in winter.
Residents of occupied Ukrainian town face starvation
In Olechky, a Ukrainian town occupied by the Russians, residents are facing starvation witnesses describe a ghost town – with no food and no electricity. With supplies running out, Ukrainian forces have been dropping food supplies by drone.
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