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About 2000 people remain there, including 50 children.
During the UN General Assembly, Ukraine will raise the issue of the situation in the occupied Oleshky in Kherson region.
This was written by Minister of Foreign Affairs Andriy Sybiha on the social network X.
According to him, Russia is deliberately creating a humanitarian catastrophe in the occupied part of Kherson region, blocking access to food and medicine, impeding humanitarian access and the evacuation of civilians, while Russian FPV drones are hunting people in the streets.
“The situation in Oleshky is particularly horrific. Of the pre-war population of about 24 000, only about 2000 people remain, including about 50 children. There is no electricity or gas. Food, medicine, and other essentials have been blocked for a month. Horrific reports indicate that people are searching for food scraps and gathering grass to survive,” the diplomat noted.
Ukraine seeks an organized evacuation, and the International Committee of the Red Cross is ready to participate, and international humanitarian organizations are ready to provide life-saving assistance.
“The only obstacle is Russia. Russia is deliberately obstructing these efforts to reach people who desperately need them, turning humanitarian access itself into a tool of pressure. In New York during the High-Level Week of the UN General Assembly, we will work to mobilize international pressure to ensure humanitarian access, a humanitarian corridor, and the safe evacuation of civilians. I am also discussing these efforts with ICRC President Mirjana Spoljaric,” he wrote.
Sybiha said the international community must use its collective voice to break through Russia’s humanitarian blockade, ensure immediate and unhindered access for humanitarian organizations, and secure the safe evacuation of civilians.
The All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations declared a critical humanitarian situation in temporarily occupied Oleshky in Kherson region and called on the Pope to save this settlement.
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