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Localized Russia-Ukraine truce in Kherson expires after six days
The truce enabled a joint evacuation from Oleshky, and a Ukrainian official says Russia reportedly refused an extension.
The short version
- A six-day localized ceasefire in Kherson ended Sunday night with no reported violations and no sign of an extension.[Al Jazeera]
- The truce was reached after mediation by US First Lady Melania Trump, with Pope Leo XIV involved, and allowed hundreds of residents to be evacuated from Oleshky.[Al Jazeera · ABC News]
- A Ukrainian official told AFP that Russia reportedly refused an offer to extend, while the Kremlin praised how the Oleshky operation was conducted.[Al Jazeera]
- Russian strikes elsewhere in Ukraine killed three people in Vinnytsia and cut power to hundreds of thousands of households, according to Ukrainian officials.[Al Jazeera · ABC News]
Key facts
- A six-day localized ceasefire in Kherson's eastern region ended Sunday night with no reported violations.[Al Jazeera]
- The truce was reached after mediation by US First Lady Melania Trump, with Pope Leo XIV involved.[Al Jazeera]
- An estimated 2,000 civilians were in Oleshky when the truce took hold, and they were offered evacuation or remaining with supplies.[Al Jazeera · ABC News]
- Ukraine's military reported evacuating 167 civilians on Sunday from threatened areas of the Kherson region, including 22 children.[Al Jazeera]
- A Russian drone attack killed three people, including a 13-year-old girl, at a vocational school in Vinnytsia, and four others were wounded.[Al Jazeera · ABC News]
- According to Ukraine's air force, Moscow's forces attacked Ukraine overnight with 433 drones, of which 371 were destroyed or suppressed.[Al Jazeera · ABC News]
- Governor Gleb Nikitin said more than 100 Ukrainian drones were shot down over Russia's Nizhny Novgorod region, and an industrial building in Kstovo sustained significant damage.[Al Jazeera · ABC News]
- A Ukrainian official told AFP that Russia reportedly refused an offer to extend the ceasefire after Kyiv's Foreign Ministry proposed it.[Al Jazeera]
What remains uncertain
- Russia's reported refusal of an extension rests on one Ukrainian official's account to AFP and is not independently confirmed.[Al Jazeera]
- The extent of the damage to the industrial building in Kstovo is unspecified, as the governor gave no further details.[ABC News]
- Whether the ceasefire will be restored or extended after its expiry remains unknown.[Al Jazeera]
Sources
Outlet counts describe coverage, not independent confirmation. Reports may share a wire service or original source.