Melania Trump Secures 1-Week Oleshky Ceasefire for Aid and Evacuations

3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Oct 28

A localized ceasefire took effect at 4 a.m. Moscow time Tuesday in and around Russian-occupied Oleshky, opening a humanitarian corridor for food, water, medicine and civilian evacuations.
The deal was signed Oct. 23 by Russia's and Ukraine's human rights commissioners after weeks of talks mediated by first lady Melania Trump, who both governments authorized as their exclusive intermediary.
The operation covers a city once home to about 24,000 people but now reduced to roughly 2,000, many elderly, after years of occupation, shelling, mined roads and collapsing basic services.
Russian forces said they would halt fire along the Kherson axis, while civilian teams from both countries will run the mission for about one week to keep the two militaries apart.
The agreement is limited to humanitarian work in Kherson and does not affect fighting elsewhere, but it also sketches monthly aid and repatriation efforts in the region with Trump's continued coordination.