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Update: Starving Oleshky residents begin evacuating under a truce Melania Trump helped broker, as Russian strikes black out Dnipro for more than 350,000
Residents of Russian-held Oleshky in southern Ukraine began evacuating Friday in the first joint relief operation by the two sides in the war, under a local ceasefire brokered by U.S. first lady Melania Trump, Reuters reported; Russian rights commissioner Yana Lantratova said 25 buses and 50 medical personnel were on hand. Russian strikes overnight left more than 350,000 people without power in Dnipro and the surrounding region, the regional head said, and a Ukrainian drone set fire to a refinery in Russia's Samara region, CNBC reported. U.S.-mediated peace talks are due to resume next month in Abu Dhabi.
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- Devdiscourse (Reuters)Russia and Ukraine say Oleshky aid operation and evacuations under way
- CNBCRussian strikes plunge Ukrainian city into blackout as Zelenskyy warns of more missile attacks