A humanitarian truce for the Ukrainian city of Oleshky is due to begin Tuesday, a week after Pope Leo XIV appealed to Vladimir Putin for a ceasefire. Ukraine's human rights commissioner confirmed the truce and said aid and evacuation would happen in stages.
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