https://www.live-feeds.com/feed/ukrainian-foreign-minister-says-russian-held-town-is-a-death-trap-with-starving-residentsContinuously updated, source-cited coverage. https://www.live-feeds.com/feed/ukrainian-foreign-minister-says-russian-held-town-is-a-death-trap-with-starving-residentshttps://www.live-feeds.com/feed/ukrainian-foreign-minister-says-russian-held-town-is-a-death-trap-with-starving-residents#u145811Thu, 22 Oct 2026 06:20:27 +0000Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha warns that 1,700 civilians in the Russian-occupied town of Oleshky are facing starvation. Sybiha reports that Russian forces are blocking aid and mining escape routes, turning the town into a "death trap." According to the United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine, the population has dropped from 24,000 before the war to roughly 1,700, including 47 children. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy described the conditions in Oleshky as "genocide" this week as residents risk death to flee the front-line city.Why it mattersOleshk