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War in Ukraine: Evacuations under way in Russian-occupied Oleshky

France 2430 October 2026, 16:01 UTCUkraine

Starving and exhausted residents of Oleshky, a Russian-occupied town in southern Ukraine, were being evacuated on Friday, October 30, as part of a joint relief operation involving the opposing sides – the first operation of its kind in four years and eight months of war. FRANCE 24’s Ukraine correspondent Emmanuelle Chaze reports.

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