Same story, two framings

Euromaidan Press· 29 Oct

Ukraine’s humanitarian mission to Russian-occupied Oleshky in Kherson Oblast has reached a key stage, with mine clearance along designated routes completed and a humanitarian convoy ready to depart, Ukraine’s Human Rights Commissioner Dmytro Lubinets said on 29 October. The mission aims to deliver humanitarian aid to civilians trapped in the occupied city facing humanitarian crisis, and provide a safe way out for those who want to leave. The operation is taking place under a localized ceasefire coordinated with the help of US First Lady Melania Trump. Lubinets said the ceasefire has held for 54 hours without reported violations. Aid convoy prepared, civilian evacuations planned Lubinets said the humanitarian convoy was ready to leave and was expected to reach Oleshky’s central hospital. Residents would receive the assistance they need, he said. Civilians wishing to leave the city would have an opportunity to do so until 2 p.m. local time, with security measures organized for their departure. Distribution of humanitarian aid was scheduled to begin after 2:30 p.m. Delegations from Ukraine, Russia, and the United States had gathered to coordinate the next steps in the mission. Journal

Ukrainska Pravda· 2 Nov

Polish police, working alongside the armed forces, the border guard and the security services, have established a special operations headquarters for a preventive security operation in the Warmian-Masurian and Podlaskie voivodeships. Source: Marek Boroń, Commander-in-Chief of the Polish National Police, on Polish radio station RMF FM, as reported by European Pravda Details: Preventive measures are being taken in response to reports that acts of sabotage may be carried out on the border with Kaliningrad Oblast in the coming days. "This is directly related to the situation in our country today, namely acts of diversion and sabotage, this hybrid crime and the activities of Eastern secret services," Boroń explained. The operation is being conducted by the police. Its command centre is located at the National Police Headquarters. The regional police headquarters in Olsztyn and Białystok are also involved. The authorities were warned last week by military intelligence and allied intelligence services that sabotage could take place on the border with Russia, including incursions by armed groups. Quote: "The police are ensuring security in the Królewiec district in case of possible inciden

Euromaidan Press· 2 Nov

Ukraine’s and Russia’s human rights commissioners have agreed to keep working on regular humanitarian missions after the evacuation from occupied Oleshky, Ukrainian ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets said on 31 October. A day later, the ceasefire that made the evacuation possible ended. Without a new truce, the people left behind are back where they were. In July, the Institute for the Study of War concluded that Russia was effectively blockading Oleshky, which lies across the Dnipro from Ukrainian-held Kherson. In May, journalist Zarina Zabrisky said the existing route out, through occupied Crimea, Russia, and Belarus, did not work: only three of 20 people who recently tried it got through. Oleshky as a first step Lubinets wrote that he and Russian ombudsman Yana Lantratova had agreed to continue work on regular missions. He said Oleshky should be the first step, since people living near the front line need constant support. Lantratova claimed the same day that the sides had agreed to hold regular missions. The truce had been coordinated by US First Lady Melania Trump. On 1 November, Lubinets said both sides had kept their commitments. He added that the two were working through the possibi

Euromaidan Press· 31 Oct

Civilians trapped in Russian-occupied Oleshky, from a child barely a year old to a 94-year-old, have been brought out to Ukrainian-held territory under the longest ceasefire either side has kept since 2022. The delegation that ran the humanitarian mission into the occupied Kherson Oblast town returned on 31 October, Ukraine's human rights ombudsman, Dmytro Lubinets, said , thanking US First Lady Melania Trump for her help. The operation stands out as a rare working channel between Kyiv and Moscow, and as a model that Lubinets says could, hopefully, be reused to pull civilians from the war's worst-hit pockets. A survival one meter from the wall, and a family trapped on the eighth floor Lubinets opened with the result, saying that was "the moment we were waiting for: the residents of Oleshky have crossed the border." "The humanitarian mission has ended successfully," he wrote. He then put faces to it. The oldest person to leave is 94, he said, the youngest just over a year old, and one woman will mark her 49th birthday on the free side. One family had been surviving in a house wrecked by shelling, the father too ill to get down from the eighth floor because the stairs had collapsed,

Euromaidan Press· 4 Nov

On 2 November in Petropavlivska Borshchahivka, on the outskirts of Kyiv, an enraged crowd rocked a bus with mobilized men inside, threatening to overturn it. These were the men the crowd had come to "free." Hours earlier, a woman in a medic's uniform with impeccable makeup had pulled up to a private house nearby in an ambulance, knelt at its gate, and livestreamed a dramatic plea to be let in to the "unlawfully held mobilized." Their relatives had called her, she said, because the men were in grave condition after "torture." The video spread like wildfire through networks of anonymous Telegram channels and posts in Facebook groups. There is an underground torture chamber in that house, they alleged. Forty men are kept inside against their will, they claimed. A woman posing as a medic demands to be let into an army post at Petropavlivska Borshchahivka, 2 November. Screenshot from video shared in social networks The reality was less dramatic. The kneeling woman was not a medic but the owner of a plastic surgery clinic, investigative outlet Slidstvo.Info found . The private ambulance she arrived in? The medical company that once owned it stopped operating in 2023 and sold the vehicle

Ukrainska Pravda· 4 Nov

There were 26 mobilised servicemen in the house in Petropavlivska Borshchahivka, Kyiv Oblast, where clashes occurred on 2 November, four of whom were injured, the Azov regiment has reported. Source: Ukrainska Pravda article titled "What happened in Petropavlivska Borshchahivka and what is known about the injured: Azov's answers to five main questions" (English translation coming soon) Details: According to Pavlo "Kil" Kurchenko, Commander of Military Unit 3121 of the 1st Corps of the Azov National Guard, to which the temporary deployment point belongs, there were no "numerous beaten people" or "a killed person" in the house, as fake doctor Valentyna Moloda had shouted during a live stream. Four mobilised men – Andrii Kuleshov, Ivan Yareshko, Oleksandr Pavliuchenko and Oleksandr Perminov – sustained injuries and were later taken out of the house and delivered to a National Guard medical facility. According to Kurchenko, Kuleshov was in the house "in quarantine for adaptation after going AWOL [absent without leave – ed.]". This man was also previously a National Guard serviceman: after being assigned at a territorial recruitment centre, he was sent to the 52nd Forge International Ass

Euromaidan Press· 4 Nov

Democrats won control of both chambers of the US Congress in the 3 November midterm elections, NBC News projected , and will take over when the new Congress meets in January. The result ends Trump's Republican majority but leaves him the veto. For Ukraine, voters removed some of Kyiv's critics and several of its staunchest Republican allies. Hours before Americans voted, Russia fired 59 cruise missiles at Ukraine's power grid. For two years, a Republican Congress left Ukraine policy largely to the White House, which struck a diesel deal with Moscow that senators of both parties said clashes with a 2022 jaban. Congress writes the budget and sanctions laws and can investigate the administration. That puts real levers over US help for Ukraine back in lawmakers' hands. Texas and Kansas elect Democratic senators for the first time in decades As of publication, Democrats hold 54 Senate seats to the Republicans' 43, with races in Alaska, Mississippi, and Nebraska still uncalled. They flipped seven, including Texas and Kansas. Kansas last sent a Democrat to the Senate in 1932, Le Monde noted . In the House, NBC News has called 231 races for Democrats and 144 for Republicans, and expects ab

Ukrainska Pravda· 25 Oct

Russian forces attacked a thermal power plant, substations, coal mines, grain storage facilities, shopping centres and a postal logistics hub on the night of 24-25 October. Source: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on X (Twitter) Details: This week alone, Russia has launched around 1,600 guided aerial bombs, 48 missiles of various types, including ballistic missiles, and nearly 2,300 attack drones against Ukraine. "Unfortunately, almost every day, these brutal strikes leave people killed and injured, " Zelenskyy said. Four people were killed in Russian attacks on Dnipropetrovsk Oblast on the evening of 24 October. Another 22 people were injured, including an 11-year-old girl. In Vinnytsia, a Russian drone struck an apartment building, injuring six people. In Kharkiv, Russian forces first struck a home improvement superstore and then carried out a repeat strike on emergency services that had arrived at the scene. Rescue workers were injured. Quote: " There were also strikes overnight on a thermal power plant, substations, coal mines, grain storage facilities, shopping malls and a postal logistics hub. Damage has been reported in nine regions . [...] We need to unblock the deli