Overview
- Demining of routes into Oleshky was completed before the mission but two people, including a sapper, were killed during the clearance operations.
- A humanitarian convoy departed for Oleshky on the morning of Friday, October 30 to deliver food, medicine, drinking water, hygiene supplies and fuel to the central hospital.
- The operation is taking place under a localized ceasefire that began on October 27 and is scheduled to run through the evening of November 1, and participants reported no violations by the morning of October 30.
- Evacuation plans include 25 buses with capacity for at least 750 people available for departures up to 14:00 on October 30 and a planned military transport flight from Anapa to Gomel on October 31 for those returning to Ukrainian-controlled territory.
- Ukrainian and Russian human-rights commissioners coordinated the mission with visible U.S. mediation and four Newsmax journalists acting as observers, while roughly 2,000 residents in the city face acute shortages of food, power and medical care.