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My special report tonight on the work by PVA and @UkraineFocus to help people in Ukraine injured by Russia's invasion, "When you ask Tony why help Ukraine: “Why help anybody anywhere? They need the help." news10.com/news/special-repo…
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An official Ukrainian delegation arrived on October 30 in occupied Oleshky via Gomel, Belarus and Anapa, Russia to facilitate the humanitarian ceasefire in occupied Kherson Oblast.
The Kremlin forced independent Russian media source Novaya Gazeta to close as part of the Kremlin’s long running effort to gain control over Russia’s information space and control the narrative about the war in Ukraine.
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JD Vance's cousin, Nate Vance: I came to Ukraine to do humanitarian work. Then I saw how the Russians behaved.
Bucha is what pushed me to join the Ukrainian army.
I was there after its liberation. I decided: if I found a unit, I would go and serve. 1/
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Waited until our team crossed the border (back into UA) before commenting on this report, which got me pulled off air yesterday...
But viewers should be aware of the perils and pitfalls of reporting from Russian-occupied Ukraine, where information is tightly controlled and independent journalism faces serious constraints.
.@Shelby_Wilder of Newsmax on Russia’s Oleshky stint:
“Russia is using this humanitarian operation as a propaganda opportunity.
Moscow wants to portray itself as the rescuer of civilians in a city that it occupies, one it has destroyed and plunged into this humanitarian crisis.
And we need to be clear, Russia controls what we are going to be allowed to see.
Moscow appears to have brought in numerous Russian media compared to just the one American news outlet.”
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‼️We will be home soon! For now, we are on the territory of the Republic of Belarus — together with our people and even their beloved pets!
More details coming very soon.
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🗣️Only about 0.3% of Ukraine’s social media content covers occupied territories. At the Festival of Ideas, journalists discussed how digital isolation and safety risks widen the information gap between people under occupation and the rest of Ukraine👇🏻
rubryka.com/en/article/infor…
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Other key takeaways from this week's Occupation Update:
- Russian officials have deported a 10-year-old girl from Donetsk Oblast to Russia and are distorting the child’s story to frame the deportation as humanitarianism in Russian mass media.
- Russia’s child welfare and humanitarian assistance policies in occupied Kherson Oblast are leading to family-child separation and the transfer of children to Russian state-run institutions further within occupied territory.
- Russia is intensifying efforts to standardize Russian language and literature education in occupied Ukraine as a tool of integrating Ukrainian youth into the Russian sociocultural sphere, but may be encountering some challenges to the practical implementation of its language policies in occupied areas.
- The Crimean occupation administration continues to encourage youth participation in drone competitions to interest and prepare Ukrainian youth for future service in the Russian military.
- Russian occupation officials continue to initiate youth in occupied territories into Russian state institutions through military-patriotic programming.
- The Mariupol occupation administration appears to have begun a new wave of forced evictions using “squatting” (unauthorized use of land) laws.
- Russian occupation officials may be using civilian evacuations from frontline areas to pressure Ukrainian civilians into accepting Russian passports.
Russian occupation authorities continue to prosecute Ukrainian minors for alleged terrorism-related cases.
Courts in Russia and occupied Ukraine continue to harshly punish residents of occupied Ukraine in high-profile treason or terrorism cases.
NEW: Both Russia and Ukraine are observing the limited humanitarian ceasefire intended to provide aid to the Russian-occupied Oleshky area as of October 29, but Russia may use the ceasefire to facilitate the forced transfer or deportation of Oleshky evacuees further into Russian-controlled territory or to Russia itself. (1/2)
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The Kremlin is seeking to avoid a face-to-face meeting between President Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin by proposing they speak by phone instead, the Kyiv Independent has learned.
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kyivindependent.com/putin-op…
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Novaya Gazeta, Russia’s leading investigative newspaper, announced it will shut down after more than 30 years of operation, as pressure from authorities reached new heights.
“They’ve killed us,” the newspaper said in a farewell letter. wapo.st/4A3YcKQ
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Ukraine is making modest gains on the front lines—wiping out much of Russia’s advances this year. Unable to hold the front, Russia is pummeling Ukraine’s civilian infrastructure. Register for free to see what this means for the conflict economist.com/interactive/gr…
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.@GeoffRBennett: On Ukraine, why does President Donald Trump continue to give Russia's Vladimir Putin the benefit of the doubt?
Sen. Thom Tillis, R-NC: "I don't know. It is frustrating to me, and I can't explain it. ... We can't coexist with Russia in their current form."
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A humanitarian mission entered the devastated city of Oleshky, officials said, as Russia and Ukraine observed the most significant truce of the 4.5-year war that began with Moscow’s full-scale invasion of its neighbor. abcnews.link/4B5dWMg
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Evacuations launched in Ukrainian town covered by Melania-brokered cease-fire where starved residents are reportedly eating grass trib.al/4EYAgxz
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Ukrainian and Russian humanitarian delegations began evacuating residents from Russian-occupied Oleshky on Friday, with plans to move the evacuees through Russia and Belarus before arriving back in Ukraine on Saturday.
Oleshky, a city in Ukraine's southeastern Kherson region occupied by Russia since the first days of the Ukraine-Russia war, has seen one of the most dire humanitarian crises of the conflict. Last week, first lady Melania Trump brokered a temporary ceasefire there from Oct. 28 to Nov. 1 to allow humanitarian aid to enter, and for some residents to evacuate the area. cbsn.ws/48pWVBR
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Russia appears to be using Vatican and White House-brokered humanitarian pause to prepare for an assault on Kherson
🔗 telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2…
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@MarcBeckman “Russian kids that have come back from Ukraine to their families in Russia.”
These children are Ukrainian, not Russian.
Ukraine is not conducting operations inside Russia to abduct Russian children. Russia invaded Ukraine.
First Lady Melania Trump (@FLOTUS) has successfully negotiated a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, localized to the city of Oleshky.
Humanitarian Aid will enter Oleshky on October 29, 2026. Plans for evacuation will begin.
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⚡️Update: Ukrainian delegation, evacuated Oleshky residents head to Anapa in Russia’s Krasnodar Krai.
David Arakhamia, head of President Volodymyr Zelensky's parliamentary faction, said the Ukrainian delegation and residents evacuated from Oleshky were heading to Anapa in Russia's Krasnodar Krai.
kyivindependent.com/oleshky-…
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Remarkable reporting by @Shelby_Wilder on @NEWSMAX as the network covers the evacuation from Oleshky.
"Why would some Ukrainians choose to stay in Oleshky? Because they fear being put in the hands of the Russians.
Even with the Ukrainian delegation on the ground, this being a U.S.-brokered ceasefire, these Ukrainians that have been in a war-torn city are afraid.
What if they could be subjected to filtration? What if they could be detained by Russian authorities going through screenings? Ukrainian men of fighting age fear they could be forced into Russian military recruitment as they try to leave. We are also hearing reports that civilians have been pressured to stay in Russia.
And again, the evacuation process that's taking place is not straightforward. Residents cannot go from occupied Ukraine into Ukraine because there is a front line. So civilians will be going from Oleshky through occupied Ukraine into Russia, into Belarus, and then back to Ukraine.
Newsmax is traveling with this humanitarian convoy, so we'll continue to bring you the latest updates as we get them."
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Russian independent paper Novaya Gazeta finally forced to close its doors reut.rs/4szJxV5
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Prominent Russian newspaper shuts down under pressure from authorities bbc.in/4A3vYzS
