00:00Residents evacuated from the Russian-occupied city of Oleshki have arrived in a Ukrainian-held
00:07territory after a humanitarian mission and localized ceasefire. Ukrainian President Volodymyr
00:14Zelensky announced this on Saturday, saying the humanitarian operation has been successfully
00:19completed. All evacuated Ukrainian citizens, quote, have crossed the border into Ukraine
00:26in Chernihiv Oblast, Zelensky said on X. The residents traveled by bus and plane through
00:32Russia and Belarus following a deal brokered by U.S. First Lady Melania Trump. The crossing took
00:40place under restrictions imposed by Ukrainian authorities that did not permit the disclosure
00:45of the number of evacuees. According to reports, the estimated 2,000 remaining residents were
00:51offered the choice of traveling to Ukrainian or Russian-held territory, or remaining in
00:57the city, many residents had been trapped without food, water and electricity. The truce in the
01:04southern Kherson region is seen as the most significant since Russia's full-scale invasion
01:09of Ukraine more than four and a half years ago.
