25 buses carry aid into Oleshky and take residents out under local ceasefire

A convoy of 25 buses reached Oleshky in southern Ukraine on Friday with humanitarian aid. The buses also carried residents out of the city, Deutsche Welle reports. The operation is running under a local ceasefire.

Al Jazeera reports that the convoy included both Russian and Ukrainian humanitarian officials. The Guardian says this is the first joint relief operation of its kind in the four years and eight months of war. France 24 says the convoy began moving overnight and carried food, medical supplies and other items.

Russia has held Oleshky since 2022. It lies across the Dnipro River from Kherson. The Guardian says residents have faced months of serious food and medical shortages. It reports warnings of starvation for the few thousand people left, including about 50 children.

Al Jazeera says the truce lasts six days and that Moscow and Kyiv have so far observed it. PBS NewsHour calls it the most significant truce of the war.

France 24 also reports that Russia said its forces struck energy infrastructure in and around Kyiv on Friday. The other outlets do not mention such strikes.