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Key updates US-Brokered Truce Begins in Russian-Occupied Oleshky Amid Uncertainty Over Evacuations Ukraine Slams Moscow Hosting 2030 Weightlifting Worlds, Demands Reversal Russian Missiles Strike Kyiv University Campus – One Killed, 10 Wounded, Mostly Students Ukraine and Russia are set to begin a limited humanitarian ceasefire in occupied Oleshky early Tuesday. While both sides have agreed to halt fighting, uncertainty remains over monitoring, humanitarian access and the safe evacuation of civilians facing severe shortages of food and medicine. Uncertainty remains over how a US-brokered ceasefire in Russian-occupied Oleshky will be monitored and whether civilians can safely evacuate, even as Ukraine prepares to halt fighting early Tuesday, Oct. 27, to allow desperately needed humanitarian aid into the devastated southern Ukrainian city. Neither Kyiv, Moscow nor Washington has publicly identified an independent monitoring mechanism or disclosed detailed arrangements for the humanitarian operation, brokered with the involvement of US First Lady Melania Trump. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha condemned the decision to award Moscow the 2030 World Weightlifting Championships, urging international sporting bodies to reverse it. Ukraine has threatened to boycott the event and challenge the decision through diplomatic and legal channels. Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha condemned the International Weightlifting Federation’s (IWF) decision to award Moscow the 2030 World Weightlifting Championships, calling it “unacceptable” and urging international sporting bodies to reverse the move, which he warned could normalize Russia’s aggression against Ukraine. In a statement on X on Monday, Oct. 26, Sybiha said the decision was unprecedented since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Russian ballistic missiles struck Kyiv’s university district, killing one person and injuring 10, mostly students. Zelensky warned of further attacks and urged allies to accelerate air defense deliveries. Russian ballistic missiles struck a university campus and surrounding residential areas in Kyiv late Monday, Oct. 26, killing at least one person and injuring 10 others, most of them students, as emergency crews searched damaged buildings for people feared trapped under rubble. The strikes hit the grounds of a university near Kyoto Park and Lisova metro station on the eastern bank of the Dnipro River, damaging student dormitories, residential buildings and medical facilities.