PREVIEW

People hold placards as they await the arrival of a bus convoy carrying residents of the temporarily occupied city of Oleshky in the Kherson region in Ukraine as part of a humanitarian mission, October 31, 2026. Agreements for the mission were officially confirmed on October 23. International humanitarian mediation was provided by U.S. First Lady Melania Trump and her team. The agreements were confirmed by Ukraine’s Human Rights Commissioner Dmytro Lubinets and Russia’s Human Rights Commissioner Yana Lantratova, who led the Ukrainian and Russian negotiating teams, respectively. The mission includes a ceasefire, mine clearance along transport routes to Oleshky, the delivery of humanitarian aid, and the evacuation of civilians to either Ukrainian government-controlled territory or the Russian Federation. Ukraine and Russia agreed to observe a ceasefire in the area around occupied Oleshky from October 27 until 10:59 p.m. on November 1.