Ukrainian evacuees from Russian-occupied Oleshky reunite with family
Starved and exhausted residents of Oleshky arrive in Ukraine after months of isolation, but some stay behind.
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Starved and exhausted residents of Oleshky arrive in Ukraine after months of isolation, but some stay behind.
Ukrainian residents evacuated from Russian-occupied city of Oleshky have arrived in Ukrainian-controlled territory.
Oleshky residents had been without food, water and electricity, with many resorting to cooking garden weeds to survive.
Four planes transporting evacuees from the war-ravaged city arrived in Belarus's Gomel earlier on Saturday.
Ukraine correspondent Dan Johnson explains the temporary ceasefire in the devastated town of Oleshky.
Hundreds of people are also understood to have stayed in the front-line town, despite the dangers.
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Ukraine and Russia confirm the truce in Russian-occupied Oleshky, where residents have had to eat garden weeds to survive.
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Trapped and facing starvation, residents of the Russian-occupied town of Oleshky in southern Ukraine risk their lives to travel for hours by foot and bicycle along mine-strewn roads to get food and water. The town near the Ukrainian city of Kherson on the war's southern front has been under Russian control since 2022. Since May, food deliveries have dried up, and now former residents and Ukrainian refugees are trying to sound the alarm.
Ukrainians are turning to weeds for sustenance in a town where bodies are reportedly eaten by feral dogs.
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