Ukrainian national guardsmen delivered aid to children in occupied Oleshky by drone
National Guard personnel used drones to deliver 15 packages of children’s food and toys, weighing more than 600 kilograms in total, to families in occupied Oleshky on October 24. The aid included breakfast cereals, milk, educational games and toys. The delivery took place amid a humanitarian blockade and preparations for a humanitarian mission and civilian evacuation.
Huvudpunkter
- The operation was conducted on October 24.
- National Guardsmen from the special-purpose unit “Bulgarichy” of the 11th Brigade delivered 15 packages to occupied Oleshky.
- The packages weighed more than 600 kilograms in total.
- The aid included breakfast cereals, milk, educational games and toys for families with children.
- The delivery was made using drones and drone-drop mechanisms.
- Ukraine’s interior minister Ivan Vyhivskyi announced the operation.
- Oleshky and nearby areas may still be home to more than 6,000 residents, including about 200 children.
Därför är det viktigt
The delivery provided essential supplies to families with children while Oleshky remained under a humanitarian blockade. Using drones and aerial drops allowed the aid to reach the city without a direct ground crossing. It was also part of a broader humanitarian process involving arrangements for a cessation of hostilities and the evacuation of civilians.
Vad som hände
On October 24, personnel from the special-purpose unit “Bulgarichy” of the 11th National Guard Brigade used drones and drone drops to deliver 15 packages of children’s food and toys to families in occupied Oleshky in Kherson region. The packages contained breakfast cereals, milk, educational games and toys, and weighed more than 600 kilograms in total. Ukraine’s interior minister Ivan Vyhivskyi announced the operation. The assistance was particularly significant because the city remained in a humanitarian blockade, and some children still living there had been born after the full-scale invasion began.
Så beskriver ukrainska källor det
Ukrainian reports focus on the National Guard operation, the special-purpose unit involved, the contents and weight of the aid and its intended recipients. They also emphasize the humanitarian blockade, the presence of children, the limited scope of food deliveries and the wider institutional and international efforts to secure aid and evacuation for Oleshky residents.
Där rapporteringen skiljer sig åt
Sources disagree on when the agreed cessation of hostilities for the humanitarian mission in Oleshky was due to begin, citing either October 27 or October 29. They also provide different estimates of the number of blocked residents: more than 6,000 in the city and nearby district, or about 1,700 in the destroyed city itself.
Bakgrund
Oleshky is described as being under a humanitarian blockade and on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe. More than 6,000 residents may remain in the city and nearby district, including about 200 children. Ukrainian forces had previously made two drone deliveries of food to Oleshky; during the second, they supplied nearly 400 packages of food, medicine and children’s kits weighing four tonnes. Ukrainian and Russian sides later agreed to a temporary cessation of hostilities for a humanitarian mission and the preparation of civilian evacuation. Ukrainian human rights commissioner Dmytro Lubinets and Russian human rights commissioner Yanina Lantrytova discussed the agreed mission’s details online, while Pope Leo XIV called on Vladimir Putin and Vladimir Zelensky to facilitate a ceasefire and safe evacuation. European Parliament Vice-President Pina Picierno also ended a hunger strike begun to draw attention to the humanitarian situation.