WFP gives emergency food aid to more than 400 Oleshky evacuees in Ukraine
The UN World Food Programme is providing emergency food assistance to more than 400 people who were able to leave the Russian-occupied city of Oleshky in Ukraine's Kherson region. Their departure took place during a brief local ceasefire. The source identifies the evacuees as people from Oleshky who moved out under the temporary pause in hostilities. No further operational details, casualty figures or damage assessments are provided in the text. The report places the food assistance in the context of the Russian occupation of Oleshky and the short ceasefire that enabled the evacuation. It does not give a date for... [Continue Reading]
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