# Hundreds escape occupied Oleshky after local ceasefire opens route to safety

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/evacuees-from-russia-occupied-city-where-residents-ate-weeds-on-way-to-ukraine/
- Published: 2026-10-31T12:05:04+00:00
- Updated: 2026-10-31T12:12:18+00:00
- Original publisher: BBC World (publisher lean: Centre)
- Original article: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqx2818elrnzo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss
- Topics: Americas, Europe, World

## Key points

- Evacuees from Oleshky reached Belarus and were due to return to Ukraine.
- A temporary ceasefire enabled a convoy of 25 buses to leave.
- Several hundred residents reportedly remained in the devastated city.

## Summary

Hundreds of residents have been evacuated from Oleshky, a Russian-occupied city in Ukraine’s Kherson region, after a local ceasefire allowed a convoy to leave. They reached Belarus on Saturday and were expected to return to Ukrainian territory later that day. The evacuation offers a route to safety for people who had been trapped amid severe shortages and dangerous escape routes.

The ceasefire began on Tuesday and is due to last until the end of Sunday, 1 November, allowing mines to be cleared from the road out. A convoy of 25 buses, with room for 750 people, left on Friday, alongside ambulances; several hundred residents reportedly stayed behind. Oleshky, which had 24,000 residents before Russia’s full-scale invasion, has been without electricity, gas and water for three years.

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