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Zarina Zabrisky 🇺🇸🇺🇦@ZarinaZabrisky · Sep 11, 2026

🧵URGENT. HUMANITARIAN CRISIS IN OLESHKY/THE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES OF THE KHERSON REGION. I am writing to urgently draw…

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A journalist documents a severe humanitarian crisis in Russian-occupied Oleshky, Kherson region, where thousands of Ukrainian civilians face starvation, lack of medical care and utilities, while being trapped by mined roads and Russian drone surveillance. Despite presenting evidence to the UN, Human Rights Watch, and EU/US officials, the international community has largely remained silent and mainstream media has refused coverage.

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    🧵URGENT. HUMANITARIAN CRISIS IN OLESHKY/THE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES OF THE KHERSON REGION. I am writing to urgently draw global attention to a severe humanitarian crisis on the Russian-occupied left bank of the Dnipro River in the Kherson region of Ukraine, to seek immediate action

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    🚨Thousands of Ukrainian civilians, including children and the elderly, are starving in the Russian-occupied Kherson region, including Oleshky/other settlements. Russia is responsible for this man-made famine. The international community is silent. ?

    Zarina Zabrisky 🇺🇸🇺🇦@ZarinaZabrisky · May 12, 2026

    🔴🔴🔴 Zelensky speaks about Russian human safari in Kherson and calls for help with the humanitarian crisis in occupied areas of the Kherson region, including Oleshky and surrounding villages. Evacuation is needed. The international organizations’ support is critical.

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    An estimated 5,000–6,000 Ukrainian civilians remain held by the Russian occupational authorities and military. A severe humanitarian crisis: the absence of food deliveries, lack of potable water, medical care, no electricity, gas, or heating. mfa.gov.ua/en/news/zayava…

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    Roads are mined and monitored by Russian drones. Civilians targeted by Russian drone operators in human safari tactics. Any movement is restricted. Convoys delivering food and medicine are targeted and destroyed. Evacuation routes are mined. Communications are extremely limited.

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    The only escape route is a long journey through Russia and Belarus, exposing Ukrainian civilians to filtration, detention and abuse, but it is blocked at this moment. A burial crisis is in place, with bodies left unattended in public spaces and no functioning morgue facilities.

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    Ukrainian social media, particularly Threads, carries multiple pleas from families and residents asking the world to save these civilians, but these voices are not reaching the English-language information space. UN report: ukraine.ohchr.org/en/Desperate-s…

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    A US journalist based in Kherson, I document the crisis since Feb 2026. I use testimonies from evacuees and civilians in the occupied areas; data from Ukrainian authorities in exile; Kherson military regional administration data; photos/videos from the Ukrainian military 🔗⬇️

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    In April, I presented the concept of a humanitarian green corridor via the Dnipro River in Brussels. In May, I discussed the proposal with Ukraine’s Ombudsman in Kyiv. In July, an EU Parliament petition for international support and urgent evacuation was submitted.

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    I have presented my research to the UN and Human Rights Watch; both organizations have investigated the crisis independently and called for urgent international action to establish a humanitarian corridor for civilians trapped on the occupied left bank. hrw.org/news/2026/07/0…

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    I have appealed to EU and US politicians, decision-makers for political support and international monitoring but have received no official replies. Despite all the efforts of Ukrainian diplomats and the Ombudsman's office, Russia has refused all possible evacuation options.

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    I urge the EU, US and international partners to: 1. Demand immediate negotiations for a humanitarian corridor 2. Establish and resource international monitoring 3. Elevate the crisis within international diplomatic frameworks nonviolentpeaceforce.org/wp-content/upl…

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    Deep gratitude to the residents of the occupied territories of the Kherson region who trusted me with their testimonies; to the volunteers; to the Ukrainian defenders, and to the officials, politicians, fellow journalists, editors who listened and helped to share the information.

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    Multiple mainstream, well-known international publications consistently refused to publish any information about Oleshky and surrounding areas of the occupied Kherson region, explaining that the deaths by starvation of thousands of civilians were "of no interest.”

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    We do not have time. Humans are starving to death and being hunted by drones. Now. MY REPORTS (ENGLISH): March 16, 2026 – Euromaidan Press euromaidanpress.com/2026/03/16/min…

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    March 26, 2026 – Meidas Touch, Besieged Oleshki: Humanitarian Collapse Under Russian Control meidasplus.com/p/besieged-ole…

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    April 1, 2026 -- Silicon Curtain youtube.com/watch?v=bxXRWn…

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    April 12, 2026 – Jake Broe’s Show youtube.com/watch?v=oJGCtj…...

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    April 16, 2026 – Byline Times, Escaping the Drone Siege in the Humanitarian Catastrophe of Oleshki, bylinetimes.com/2026/04/16/esc…

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    April 24, 2026 – Times of India, Drones siege and hunger: Russian-occupied Kherson region timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/voices/d…

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    May 8, 2026 – Polish Radio for Ukraine youtube.com/watch?v=TS_gEN…

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    May 10, 2026 - On the Edge, May 10, 2026 youtube.com/watch?v=AGoe9w…

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    May 10, 2026 – 24 Kanal, an interview youtube.com/watch?v=BcKMm_…

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    May 13, 2026 – Ukraine World, an interview with Volodymyr Yermolenko ukraineworld.org/en/podcasts/ep…

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    June 17, 2026 – An interview with Mykola Kuleba, a Ukrainian human rights advocate, former Commissioner for Children’s Rights of the President of Ukraine, the founder of Save Ukraine,

    Zarina Zabrisky 🇺🇸🇺🇦@ZarinaZabrisky · Jun 17, 2026

    🔴 “This is genocide. Russia uses thousands of civilians as a human shield.   I address the decision makers and the whole world: Russia not only kills Ukrainians in Ukraine, but genocide is being committed in the occupied territories.   Save Oleshky!” - @MykolaKuleba

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    June 18, 2026 — An interview with Serhiy Kozyr, a member of the Verkhovna Rada

    Zarina Zabrisky 🇺🇸🇺🇦@ZarinaZabrisky · Jun 18, 2026

    Russian forces use civilians as human shields in Oleshky while conducting human safari in Kherson & Oleshky, hunting civilians with drones. Oleshky is under a drone siege. Serhiy Kozyr, a member of the Verkhovna Rada, explains the humanitarian catastrophe in the Kherson region.

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    June 25, 2026 -- Nobel Peace Prize laureate and head of the Center for Civil Liberties, Oleksandra Matviichuk, an interview,

    Zarina Zabrisky 🇺🇸🇺🇦@ZarinaZabrisky · Jun 25, 2026

    🔴 Nobel Prize winner @avalaina Oleksandra Matciichuk on the humanitarian crisis in Oleshky / surrounding Russian-occupied areas. Thousands without food, under 24/7 drone attacks, used as human shields. Russia ignores international law. Economic sanctions needed.

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    June 26, 2026 – Kyiv Post, an article, Global Community Calls for Urgent Evacuation from Oleshky as Conditions Deteriorate, kyivpost.com/post/79055

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    June 26, 2026 - VALOR Media Network – video youtube.com/watch?v=cl56_G…

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    June 26, 2026 – The Atlantic Council, a briefing, youtube.com/watch?v=w5nPWv…

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    July 17, 2026 – Euromaidan Press, International monitors confirm Russia’s blockade of occupied Oleshky, where the living starve and the dead go unburied, euromaidanpress.com/2026/07/17/int…

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    OTHER PUBLICATIONS Ouest France, April 16, 2026 ouest-france.fr/europe/ukraine…