In Russian-controlled Oleshky, Ukrainians say they were forcibly starved and tortured before an evacuation mission allowed them to flee.
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Residents of nearby villages line highway waving flags to greet the evacuees’ convoy from the Russian-occupied city
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Hundreds of residents left the town of Oleshky on Friday during a U.S.-backed local ceasefire, the first of its kind during the Russia-Ukraine war.
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Even as a six-day local ceasefire held on its final day around the Russian-controlled Ukrainian town of Oleshky, there was no letup in fighting elsewhere.
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Four planes transporting evacuees from the war-ravaged city have arrived in Belarus's Gomel.
One evacuated couple says they crossed minefields in Oleshky in a search for food.
“We chopped grass and squash ... just to hold on,” a resident said, adding she risked riding through minefields to get food.
Residents evacuated from the Russian-occupied city of Oleshky have reached Ukraine under the most significant truce since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
“We chopped grass and squash ... just to hold on,” a resident said, adding she risked riding through minefields to get food.
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Starved and exhausted residents of Oleshky arrive in Ukraine after months of isolation, but some stay behind.
Residents were taken out from the devastated city on Friday during a local ceasefire.
The BBC's Dan Johnson travelled to the northern Ukrainian border with Belarus after evacuated Oleshky residents arrived in buses and ambulances following a temporary ceasefire.
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Starving residents of Oleshky in southern Ukraine begin evacuating as part of a joint relief operation by the opposing sides, the first of its kind in four years and eight months of war.
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Moscow and Kyiv have so far observed the six-day truce as evacuations from Oleshky get under way.