U.S. First Lady Melania Trump plans to host a meeting between Russian and Ukrainian representatives at the White House, the White House said in a statement.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed that Ukrainian hackers carried out a cyberattack on a mobile app Russia’s Emergency Situations Ministry uses to send alerts about threats.

Melania Trump was praised for helping broker a ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia that allowed those civilians who wished to evacuate Russian-occupied Oleshky in Ukraine's southern Kherson Oblast to do so.

Russia refused to extend the ceasefire in Oleshky. Russian forces occupied Oleshky, in Ukraine’s Kherson region, in 2022, and a humanitarian catastrophe has unfolded there in recent months. Moscow and Kyiv agreed to a temporary truce to allow the evacuation of residents. It ended on November 1. Ukraine’s Foreign…

Late on Nov. 1, Ukraine's Air Alert app, which provides vital updates to citizens about incoming Russian strikes, was hacked. Hours after the false warnings were sent to Ukrainian citizens' phones, Russia's own air raid alert system began to show signs of being compromised.

The exact number of people still remaining in Oleshky cannot currently be verified, Lubinets said, answering a question from the Kyiv Independent. Ukraine also cannot reveal the number of evacuees as stipulated by an agreement with Russia, he added.

Meanwhile, President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview with Fox News that Ukraine would welcome further humanitarian ceasefires in other parts of the front line.

Russia’s human rights commissioner, Yana Lantratova, said she has no data on how many people left the city of Oleshky in the Kherson region. She made the comment at a news conference on the results of the humanitarian mission.

Ukraine's Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets said at a press conference on Nov. 2 that Kyiv and Moscow could not officially disclose the number of people evacuated from Oleshky under the terms of the prior agreement.

Russia used the humanitarian ceasefire in Oleshky to rotate soldiers, improve fighting positions, expand anti-drone netting on key logistics routes, and resupply soldiers with ammunition, Ukraine's General Staff said on Nov. 2.

Russian and Ukrainian intelligence services prepared the mission to evacuate civilians from Oleshky, in the Kherson region, but presented it as the result of mediation, sources told the French newspaper Le Monde.

The mobile app of Russia’s Emergency Situations Ministry was hit by a cyberattack, and its users received notifications claiming “nuclear warheads” had been launched “across all regions” of the country.

Units from Ukraine's "South" task force cooperated with local authorities to evacuate 167 Kherson Oblast residents trapped on the right bank of the Dnipro River to safer areas in the region. 22 children and 21 people with limited mobility were among the evacuated, the General Staff said.

Ukraine's air raid alert system was hacked late on Nov. 1, the Air Force said as sirens sounded across the country, falsely notifying people of nuclear, chemical, and street fighting threats.

On Oct. 31, residents of the Russian-occupied city of Oleshky finally arrived in Ukrainian-controlled territory as part of an evacuation mission that involved a short pause in fighting mediated with the involvement of U.S. First Lady Melania Trump. Seventeen buses carrying evacuees reached Ukrainian-controlled…

CHERNIHIV OBLAST — Evacuees from the Russian-occupied city of Oleshky have reached Ukrainian-controlled territory on Oct. 31 after an arduous 19-hour journey. The city's residents, who had been trapped in a worsening humanitarian crisis for months on end, arrived to an emotional reception at the border crossing with

Russia’s human rights commissioner, Yana Lantratova, said the humanitarian mission in the city of Oleshky is coming to an end.

A humanitarian mission led by Ukrainian Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets and Russian human rights commissioner Yana Lantratova has arrived in Oleshky, a town in the Kherson region occupied by the Russian army. This is the first time a Ukrainian official of such high rank has visited territory occupied by Russia.…

The evacuation of residents has begun in the occupied city of Oleshky in the Kherson region, Russian Ombudsperson Yana Lantratova and Davyd Arakhamia, head of the Servant of the People faction in Ukraine’s parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, said.

"Everyone who wishes to leave Oleshky will be given the opportunity to leave safely. At the same time, those who have decided to stay can stay and will receive all the necessary humanitarian support," Ukraine's Human Rights Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets said.

Ukrainian ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets and Russia’s human rights commissioner Yana Lantratova have traveled to the occupied city of Oleshky in the Kherson region. They are accompanying a convoy of humanitarian aid and plan to organize the evacuation of residents who want to leave the city.

Routes for a humanitarian mission in Oleshky, in Ukraine’s Kherson region, have been cleared of mines. Russian and Ukrainian human rights commissioners Yana Lantratova and Dmytro Lubinets said the humanitarian convoy is ready to depart.

The convoy is expected to arrive at the city's central hospital, where humanitarian assistance will be provided to residents, Lubinets said.

Moscow's consent to a temporary ceasefire in Russian-occupied Oleshky seems like a long-overdue and welcome concession from a country that has repeatedly rejected or violated ceasefire proposals during the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. So why is the Kremlin so on board with Oleshky? Experts, as well as information

Russia and Ukraine have halted hostilities around the occupied city of Oleshky since October 27. The Verkhovna Rada’s human rights commissioner, Dmytro Lubinets, confirmed on the morning of October 29 that the ceasefire had held for more than two days. Russia’s human rights commissioner, Yana Lantratova, said…

Russia’s human rights commissioner Yana Lantratova said humanitarian aid has been sent to the city of Oleshky in the Kherson region.

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Concerns have been raised about Russia's true motives in agreeing to the ceasefire, as well as its agreement to allowing Trump to mediate it.

Russian forces launched an Iskander-M/S-400 ballistic missile and 88 Shahed-type drones at Ukraine, including 38 jet-powered drones, overnight on Oct. 28.