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The BBC's Dan Johnson travelled to the northern Ukrainian border with Belarus after evacuated Oleshky residents arrived in buses and ambulances following a temporary ceasefire.

After Melania Trump reportedly brokered a localized truce, residents of Ukraine's Oleshky managed to leave the occupied city. Meanwhile, Kyiv claimed a hit on a Russian rocket fuel plant. DW has more.

Evacuees stepped off buses at the Ukrainian-Belarusian border where they reunited with family members, some wrapped in blue and yellow Ukrainian flags.

<img align='right' src='https://images.jpost.com/image/upload/f_auto,fl_lossy/q_auto/c_fill,g_faces:center,h_1990,w_3570/744353' alt='People disembark a plane carrying residents evacuated from the Russian-controlled Ukrainian town of Oleshky, in Gomel, Belarus October 31, 2026. (photo credit: The Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights Office/Hand

Complex humanitarian mission extracted hundreds of people from Oleshky during rare local ceasefire between Moscow and Kyiv

Residents evacuated from the Russian-occupied city of Oleshky have reached Ukraine under the most significant truce since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Rescue operation carried out under the most significant truce since Moscow’s full-scale invasion

Oleshky residents had been without food, water and electricity, with many resorting to cooking garden weeds to survive.

Four planes transporting evacuees from the war-ravaged city arrived in Belarus's Gomel earlier on Saturday.

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A few days of truce allowed the removal of remaining civilians from Oleshky, which continual Russian attacks have made all but uninhabitable.