Oleshky residents ate weeds to survive as a Ukraine-Russia truce is brokered by Melania Trump

Summary

Residents of Oleshky, a Ukrainian city, have spent months facing hunger and dangerous escape routes, and people there survived on weeds, according to NDTV. BBC reports that Oleshky has had no electricity, gas or water for three years, and its coverage centres on a Ukraine-Russia truce in the city that the BBC headline says was brokered by Melania Trump. This summary is based only on the headlines and short summaries of the two articles, not their full text.

Timeline

1. NDTV

   27 Oct 2026, 15:38 UTCSource ↗

   NDTV reports that residents of Oleshky have spent months facing hunger and dangerous escape routes, and that people there survived on weeds.

2. BBC

   27 Oct 2026, 20:42 UTCSource ↗

   BBC reports that the Russian-occupied city of Oleshky has had no electricity, gas or water for three years, and that residents reported having to eat weeds to survive, in coverage of a Ukraine-Russia truce there that the headline says was brokered by Melania Trump.