Residents evacuated from the Russian-occupied city of Oleshky arrived back in Ukraine on Saturday amid a localized U.S.-brokered ceasefire agreement. The halt in fighting, which was secured earlier this month by first lady Melania Trump, went into effect on Tuesday and is set to last through Saturday. Residents were given the choice of being transported…
Refugees from the besieged southern town of Oleshky have returned to free Ukrainian territory and reunited with family members.
A few days of truce allowed the removal of remaining civilians from Oleshky, which continual Russian attacks have made all but uninhabitable.
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 […]
A ceasefire in the Russian-held Ukrainian city of Oleshky, where first lady Melania Trump said the situation "is dire," went into effect on Tuesday.
The agreement would “temporarily stop all military action in Oleshky to allow for humanitarian aid to enter and to prepare a civilian evacuation,” the White House said.
