Evacuees from Russian-occupied Oleshky reach Ukraine — recounting hunger, disappearances, and life under Moscow’s rule
Several busloads of residents from Russian-occupied Oleshky, a town located on the eastern bank of the Dnipro River in Ukraine’s Kherson region, arrived in the Chernihiv Region on Oct. 31, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reported on Telegram. At the arrival point, The Insider’s correspondent Tetiana Popova saw six buses carrying evacuees and several ambulances transporting elderly people…
Several buses carrying evacuees from the Russian-occupied Ukrainian town of Oleshky arrived in the neighboring Chernihiv Region on October 31. The Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, reported on Telegram about the evacuees' arrival. Upon their arrival, Tetiana Popova, a correspondent for The Insider, observed six buses filled with evacuees and ambulances transporting the elderly and those with limited mobility.
These evacuees had endured months of a near-total blockade and were provided with hot meals and medical care by the Ukrainian humanitarian mission led by Dmytro Lubinets, the Ukrainian parliament’s commissioner for human rights. Lubinets personally visited Oleshky on October 30, becoming the highest-ranking Ukrainian official to visit a Russian-controlled territory since the full-scale invasion began.
The evacuation took place under an agreement for a temporary ceasefire brokered with the participation of U.S. first lady Melania Trump.
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