Russia Uses Five-Day Oleshky Ceasefire to Reclaim Ukrainian Ground in Kherson
Russia leveraged a five‑day Oleshky ceasefire to retake Ukrainian positions cleared over a year, wiping out months of gains in the Kherson region.
POLICY WIRE — Kyiv, Ukraine — Russia took advantage of a five‑day ceasefire in the Oleshky area to move back into territory that Ukrainian forces had cleared over the past year, erasing recent advances in the Kherson oblast.
The brief pause, intended for humanitarian purposes, gave Russian units time to redeploy to positions abandoned during earlier fighting.
The head of the Kherson regional administration reported that Russian troops regained ground Ukrainian troops had spent nearly a year clearing, effectively undoing months of Ukrainian gains.
This reversal sets back Kyiv’s southern offensive and highlights the volatility of temporary truces in the ongoing conflict.
Reporting by Policy-Wire (PW)