Ukrainians evacuated from the Russian-controlled city of Oleshky have arrived in Chernihiv, northern Ukraine, the country’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said.
“As of now, Ukrainian citizens from Oleshky have crossed the Ukrainian border in the Chernihiv region. All of them will receive the assistance they need,” he wrote on X.
Zelenskyy also shared a video of evacuated residents on the bus, some waving Ukrainian flags.
Hundreds of people were evacuated from the city in the operation, Russian and Ukrainian authorities said.
Oleshky sits on the front line of the conflict in Ukraine’s southern Kherson region. The city was seized by Russia during the first days of the war in February 2022.
It has had no electricity, gas or water for three years and there are no shops open. Access in and out of the city is extremely difficult because routes have been mined and are subject to drone attacks.
The evacuees, wishing to leave for Ukraine, travelled by bus via the Crimean peninsula to the Russian town of Anapa before flying to Belarus.
Planes carrying the evacuated residents landed in the city of Gomel in Belarus on Saturday morning.
The evacuees then boarded buses and drove across the border into Ukraine's Chernihiv region.
A humanitarian ceasefire brokered by U.S. First Lady Melania Trump was implemented in Oleshky on 29 October.
Both nations agreed to temporarily stop all military action in the city to allow for humanitarian aid to enter and to prepare a civilian evacuation through a designated safe passageway.
The localised ceasefire is due to end at 10:59pm local time on 1 November.
Zelenskyy thanked Melania Trump and Ukraine’s Human Rights Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets for their assistance in carrying out the mission.
Russia’s Human Rights Commissioner Yana Lantratova also oversaw the operation, and appeared alongside Lubinets in the city of Armiansk to give a statement to media on Friday.
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