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‘Hell on earth’: last residents eat weeds to survive in Russian-occupied Oleshky

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Ukrainian forces airdrop supplies to city where bodies are left to be eaten by dogs because of deadly risk from drones The phone message sent out of Russian-occupied Oleshky was grimly matter-of-fact: food had finally run out for the 2,000 or so civi…

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  • Ukrainian forces airdrop supplies to city where bodies are left to be eaten by dogs because of deadly risk from drones The phone message sent out of Russian-occupied Oleshky was grimly matter-of-fact: food had finally run out for the 2,000 or so civi…
  • Reported by The Guardian and published Sun, 27 Sep 2026 11:00:04 UTC.

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