A Ceasefire for Oleshky, With Two Start Dates
The White House says Melania Trump has “successfully secured” a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine in Oleshky, a Russian-occupied city.
Ukraine and Russia confirmed that a deal was agreed to evacuate residents and deliver aid.
The White House said the truce in the front-line city it described as “on the brink of disaster,” short of medicine, food and clean water, would begin on 29 October. Moscow said its forces would stop firing at 04:00 (02:00 GMT) on 27 October. Oleshky was seized by Russia in the first days of its full-scale invasion in February 2022.
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If those two announcements describe the same pause, it starts on 27 October for the guns and 29 October for the truce — a two-day gap that may be bureaucratic fuzz or a sign the thing was stitched together in a hurry.
The clock-watching is secondary. Both capitals confirming an evacuation and aid deal is the substantive part; the White House's credit line for the first lady is a press-release flourish.