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Tomorrow at the meeting, the issue of a humanitarian catastrophe in the city is to be considered.
Ukraine initiated an urgent discussion at the Permanent Council of the OSCE on 1 October about the humanitarian catastrophe in the temporarily occupied Oleshky in Kherson region, said Ukraine's Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba.
The Ukrainian delegation will inform participants about the critical situation in Oleshky, where the occupiers are holding adults and children hostage. He added that our country demands immediate action from the international community to save the people.
Kuleba urged OSCE member states and Swiss representatives, which currently chairs this international organization, to exert maximum pressure on Russia.
"Oleshky need urgent humanitarian assistance. Russia must be forced to provide it immediately," the Ukrainian minister stressed.
After the destruction of the Kakhovka Reservoir in 6 June 2023, water flooded many settlements, including Oleshky. About two thousand residents of the occupied city have no access to medical care or food. The All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations of Ukraine appealed to the Pope, the UN, and the International Committee of the Red Cross. The council called for assistance in evacuating residents to staffed Ukrainian-controlled territory. People cannot leave Oleshky due to mined areas and ongoing shelling from the occupiers.
Recently, Ukrainian forces, with the help of drones, delivered four thousand kilograms of food to Oleshky. However, the Russians take the food, and people who received the donated food are "thrown into basements."
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