Melania Trump secures ceasefire in Russian-occupied Ukrainian city of Oleshky where starving residents are eating garden weeds
Around 1,700 to 2,000 people remain in Oleshky, down from 24,000, most of them elderly and about 50 of them children. Evacuees will be offered transport to Russia or Ukraine. Melania Trump said that 'without my intervention' aid and evacuation 'would be impossible'.
President Trump on the deal: 'Her initiative... both sides wanted to do it.'
Volodymyr Zelenskyy has described the situation in Oleshky this week as 'genocide'.
About 90 per cent of the city flooded after the Kakhovka Dam was destroyed.
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