Four planes carrying residents evacuated from the Russian-controlled Ukrainian town of Oleshky have landed in Belarus, the country’s state news agency and a senior Ukrainian official said Saturday.
\n\nHundreds of starving and exhausted residents left the town of Oleshky on Friday during a local ceasefire brokered by first lady Melania Trump, the first of its kind and the longest humanitarian pause in the war, which is nearing its fifth year.
\n\n“The last, fourth plane landed in Gomel,” said David Arakhamia, a top Ukrainian peace negotiator and close ally of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. “In a few hours, all Ukrainian citizens evacuated from Oleshky together with a Ukrainian delegation will be on Ukrainian territory.”
\n\nBelarus’ Belta news agency later reported that a convoy of buses carrying the residents had departed from the airport in Gomel, in southeastern Belarus near the border with Ukraine.
\n\nThe evacuees leaving for Ukraine had to take a complicated route to leave Oleshky as the frontline runs just a few miles away.
\n\nThey first travelled by bus via Crimea to the Russian town of Anapa before flying to Belarus from where they will continue to Ukraine via a border crossing, Belta reported.
\n\nThe local ceasefire in Oleshky was…
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