{"id":733,"date":"2026-10-23T20:02:54","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T20:02:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/?p=733"},"modified":"2026-10-23T20:02:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T20:02:54","slug":"melania-trump-oleshky-ceasefire-ukraine-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/?p=733","title":{"rendered":"MELANIA TRUMP JUST BROKERED A CEASEFIRE IN A STARVING UKRAINIAN CITY! | Residents of Oleshky have been eating garden weeds. Now both armies say they\u2019ll stop shooting, but nobody\u2019s said for how long"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE FIRST LADY JUST WALKED ONTO THE FRONT LINE! The White House says <strong>Melania Trump<\/strong> has \u201csuccessfully secured\u201d a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine in the Russian-occupied city of <strong>Oleshky<\/strong>, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c6vgxkvl4w5eo\">BBC<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The White House called it a \u201cfront-line war city on the brink of disaster,\u201d without medicine, food or clean water, and said the truce would begin on <strong>29 October<\/strong>. Ukraine and Russia both confirmed the deal to evacuate residents and deliver aid, and both said their forces would stop firing at <strong>02:00 GMT on 27 October<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>How bad is it? Oleshky was seized in the first days of Russia\u2019s full-scale invasion in February 2022 and sits trapped between Ukrainian positions across the Dnipro River and Russian forces to the east. Residents have resorted to eating garden weeds. The city has had no gas or electricity since 2023, and residents told the BBC only one hospital was partly working, a few days a week, to perform critical amputations. Ukraine estimates about <strong>6,000<\/strong> people remain in and around the city, including <strong>200 children<\/strong>, down from 24,000 before the invasion.<\/p>\n<p>The White House says the first lady and a representative worked \u201cdirectly with Russian and Ukrainian leadership\u201d on the terms. \u201cResidents who wish to evacuate will receive co-ordinated support and transportation to their preferred destination. I anticipate some will want to go to Russia, and some to Ukraine,\u201d she said, adding that without her intervention, bringing in aid and evacuating the elderly \u201cwould be impossible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kyiv\u2019s Davyd Arakhamia said an operation to unblock Oleshky will begin \u201cin the near future,\u201d and the Kremlin\u2019s spokesman confirmed \u201cthose who wish to do so will be able to leave.\u201d The catch: the statement didn\u2019t say how long the ceasefire will last.<\/p>\n<p><em>Featured image: AI-generated editorial illustration by Bugle Blast.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c6vgxkvl4w5eo\">BBC News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of Oleshky have been eating garden weeds. Now both armies say they\u2019ll stop shooting, but nobody\u2019s said for how long<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":732,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/bb-oleshky-truce-1023.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugleblast.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}