Residents leave Russian-occupied Oleshky in evacuation operation

On Friday, residents of Oleshky, a Russian‑occupied town in southern Ukraine, began leaving under a U.S.‑brokered ceasefire. Ukrainian and Russian officials coordinated the evacuation, deploying 25 buses and nine ambulances. The town’s population, down from about 24,000 before the war to roughly 2,000, was reduced further, though exact numbers of evacuees were not disclosed.

Source: Residents leave Russian-occupied Oleshky in evacuation operation — France 24

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