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Residents of Russian-controlled Ukrainian town arrive in Belarus

CNA31 October 2026, 09:59 UTCBelarus

Hundreds of starving and exhausted residents left the town of Oleshky on Friday during a US-backed local ceasefire, the first of its kind and the longest humanitarian pause in the war, which is nearing its fifth year.

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