Ukraine recovers bodies in Oleshky during a ceasefire and seeks to return them to families
A six-day ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine ended on November 1 in the Oleshky area. The truce, initiated in southern Ukraine, allowed hundreds of civilians to be evacuated from Russian-occupied Oleshky. Evacuees crossed into Ukraine and reached Belarus, with the final group arriving on October 31. The city remained under severe humanitarian crisis with no access to basic supplies.
- A localized ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine lasted into a third day.
- Olechky is a Ukrainian city occupied by Russia.
- A local ceasefire was brokered involving Melania Trump.
- Ukraine estimates about 6,000 people remain in Oleshky and surrounding areas.
- The humanitarian operation in Russian-occupied Oleshky brought hundreds out.
- Dmytro Lubinets confirmed the Ukrainian side is meeting its commitments.
- Local authorities in Oleshky, southern Ukraine, prepared transportation for evacuation.
- Melania Trump posted on her social network that 750 people were evacuated from the city.
- The remaining inhabitants of Oleshky lack access to food, water, gas, electricity, and medicine.
- A six-day local ceasefire in Oleshky was reached with mediation efforts by Melania Trump and the pope.
- Three planes carried evacuees landing at an airport in Belarus on Saturday.
- Russia's defence ministry stated it stopped firing toward the Ukrainian-controlled city of Kherson.
- Starved and exhausted residents from Russian-controlled Oleshky crossed into Ukraine on Saturday.
- The Ukrainian military evacuated 167 people from threatened areas in southern Kherson.
- The six-day ceasefire in the Russian-occupied city of Olesky has ended.
- Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia had a positive view of the operation in Oleshky.
- The Ukrainian Air Force stated the 'Air Alert' emergency app was possibly compromised by the enemy.
- The Ukrainian General Staff reported 22 children and 21 people with limited mobility among the evacuated.
- The Ukrainian General Staff claimed Russian forces used the ceasefire to strengthen military positions.
- Dmytro Lubinets said Kyiv and Moscow could not officially disclose the number of people evacuated from Oleshky.
- Dmytro Lubinev is working with Russian colleague Jana Lantratova on future humanitarian initiatives.
- Residents of occupied Olesky were watching Ukrainian channels and listening to Ukrainian radio.
- The truce, which was in effect from Oct 27 to Nov 1, has ended, according to Ukraine’s Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights.
- The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Kyiv unsuccessfully proposed an extension to Moscow.
- Russia currently occupies about one-fifth of Ukraine's territory.
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