Starving residents of Oleshky must not become props in Russian propaganda

"Oleshky is starving. The stories of the residents have been well documented. Now, there seems to be light at the end of the tunnel: U.S. First Lady Melania Trump has helped to broker a temporary, localized ceasefire agreement, which, in theory, should take place from Tuesday, Oct. 27. Much-needed aid could finally be delivered, and residents evacuated," write Peter Pomerantsev, executive editor of The Reckoning Project, and Aliide Naylor, a British-Estonian journalist and author, in this op-ed. ⠀ "But this city of weak, hungry, and vulnerable people will face a new danger as Oleshky slowly opens: under the pressure of living on the brink of death, they could become props for Russian propagandists attempting to rewrite the history of what happened in the city," they write.

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