Evacuees of Russian-occupied Oleshky reunited with families
Ukrainian residents who spent years trapped in the Russian-occupied city of Oleshky have arrived in Ukrainian-controlled territory. There were emotional scenes as they were reunited with loved ones. Their evacuation took place during a US-backed local ceasefire.
Hundreds of civilians were evacuated from the city of Oleshky after Russia and Ukraine agreed to a US-brokered ceasefire. Some observers have expressed optimism that more such humanitarian missions might follow.
As war rages on in Kyiv and other cities, the first lady celebrates her single-city ceasefire with Russian and Ukrainian envoys Beaming from a podium in the White House’s Grand Foyer, Melania Trump welcomed senior Russian and Ukrainian officials on Thursday to celebrate a ceasefire in an embattled Ukrainian town for which she has become the unlikeliest broker. The evacuation from Oleshky, a frontline Ukrainian town now occupied by Russia where 800 people lived through a protracted humanitarian crisis, may seem like a sideshow at this point in the war.
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US First Lady Melania Trump has brought Russian and Ukrainian representatives together at the White House.