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Explainer-Oleshky: the occupied Ukrainian town for which Melania Trump helped broker a ceasefire

Straits Times26 October 2026, 12:30 UTCUkraine

Oct 26 - Russia and Ukraine have agreed to a localised ceasefire around the Russian-occupied town of Oleshky in southern Ukraine, an arrangement that will enable aid deliveries and allow evacuations from a frontline town suffering acute shortages of food and medicine.

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