Ombudsman Lubinets Asks for Data on Oleshky Residents Needing Help

Ukraine's Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, Dmytro Lubinets, has asked people to send the Ombudsman's Office information about residents of Oleshky, in the Kherson region, who need help ahead of the humanitarian operation. He wrote about it on social media, Ukrainska Pravda reported on Sunday, October 25.

"As Ukraine's Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, I am in constant contact with all the parties involved, the relevant state bodies and local self-government," Lubinets wrote. "Right now it is extremely important for us to get as much information as possible about people who are in the city and need help. Especially about elderly people, people with limited mobility and those who cannot take care of themselves."

How to pass on information

Lubinets asked anyone with information that could help organise the humanitarian mission to contact the Ombudsman's Office and to spread the request. It can be done through WhatsApp, Viber or Telegram at +38 067 717 51 70, +38 073 719 81 34 and +38 067 182 55 04. "We are ready to process every appeal and do everything possible to help our citizens," he said.

The operation

The Ukrainian and Russian general staffs reported on Friday evening that from the night of October 27 they would introduce a ceasefire in a designated area for a humanitarian operation in temporarily occupied Oleshky. Lubinets confirmed that the operation and the ceasefire would take place on October 29. President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he hopes American mediation to unblock the city will work, but that the situation remains hard because the Russians have mined the roads.

The White House said that US first lady Melania Trump had brokered the truce, and Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed that Russia agreed to the ceasefire. See our earlier report: Ukraine and Russia set an Oleshky ceasefire from October 27. More in our world section.