Stranded locals use rare truce to leave Moscow-occupied town in Ukraine

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Residents of Russian-occupied Oleshky in southern Ukraine used a temporary ceasefire to leave a town facing shortages of food and medicine. Ukrainian and Russian officials visited together to deliver aid and help evacuate people, with the truce expected to end Sunday evening.

Some residents of Oleshky, a Russian-occupied town in southern Ukraine ravaged by food and medicine shortages, left on Friday during a rare ceasefire brokered by the United States – due to end on Sunday evening. Ukrainian and Russian officials visited the town together on Friday, delivering aid and marshalling those who wanted to leave.