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🤬 Russian forces are seizing humanitarian aid in occupied Oleshky
According to Kherson regional governor Oleksandr Prokudin, around 2,000 people, including nearly 50 children, remain in the city without reliable access to food, water or electricity.
Ukraine is trying to deliver food across the Dnipro by drone, but Prokudin says Russian forces shoot down the drones, seize or resell the supplies, and detain local residents for receiving aid.
Footage is also circulating on social media today showing the bodies of Oleshky residents who were allegedly killed by mines while trying to travel in search of food. The video was published by pro-war Russian correspondent Alexander Kots.
Incredible: another Ukrainian famine is unfolding, this time in Russian-occupied Oleshky. The remaining inhabitants of what used to be a thriving small city, now down to about 6000 people, are blockaded by Russian forces and cut off from food and water.
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THREAD — Occupied Oleshky, late September 2026.
New information about how the city survives when food has not been brought in since May.
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When I asked today whether your news media are covering what is happening in Oleshky, some of you said they are, while many others said they haven’t seen any information about it at all.
And some of you asked: What can we do?
Tag your local news media under every post you see about Oleshky. Tag news outlets, journalists, and reporters. Share these posts.
This is how we can help more people see that there is a catastrophe in Oleshky.
People in Oleshky have no food and are surviving on grass and weeds, a desperate measure that won't even be an option in the winter. Real pressure must be applied to Russia to allow people to evacuate!
In occupied Oleshky, Ukrainians are beginning to eat their dogs; according to the city's military administration, the Russians have not allowed food into the city since May.
The Russians intend to starve 6,000 people to death.
"A few days ago, I heard for the first time that there are indeed cases where some families are eating dogs. Just a week ago, I denied such reports, but now someone from there has confirmed it to me. There is literally nothing to eat. The situation is deteriorating not just day by day, but hour by hour.
And there is no prospect of rescue. People face two paths: either they starve to death, or they are killed by a drone or artillery fire. There is no third option. The likelihood of surviving there without food is zero," explained Tetiana Hasanenko, head of the Oleshky military administration, as reported by *Ukrayinska Pravda*.
According to the head of the military administration, there is no disparity where some families in the city have food while others do not; everyone is starving.
The last food delivery to Oleshky took place on May 26. Every subsequent attempt has been unsuccessful.