Meanwhile, we are getting a line from Russian-occupied Oleshky confirming that evacuations are now under way, as part of a US-brokered localised ceasefire to provide humanitarian aid to the city’s residents.
A man walks across a road beneath anti-drone nets stretched over a street during a local ceasefire related to a humanitarian aid mission in Oleshky, in Kherson, Ukraine. Photograph: Evgeniy Maloletka/AP527 people are expected to return to Ukraine-controlled territories, Ukraine’s prime minister Sergii Koretskyi said, quoted by Interfax.
Speaking to parliament, he added that they would travel through Russia to Belarus, where they would then enter Ukraine through the Kyiv and Chernihiv regions.
Russian human rights commissioner Yana Lantratova claimed that some people wanted to be evacuated to Russia, too.
