A humanitarian truce around the Russian-occupied town of Oleshky in Ukraine's Kherson region came into force on Tuesday, according to Sky TG24. Russia's defence ministry said on Telegram that its forces stopped firing in the Kherson sector from 4am Moscow time as part of preparations for a humanitarian operation in the area, the outlet reported.
The pause applied only to that sector. Sky TG24 reported that Russian strikes continued across the rest of Ukraine, including an attack on a major bridge over the Dnipro river in Kyiv.
Why it matters
Oleshky sits on the left bank of the Dnipro, opposite the city of Kherson, and the truce covers a town that Sky TG24 describes as besieged by Russian forces and reduced to hunger. The outlet reported that Pope Leo XIV and Melania Trump had both pressed for action on the town's plight before the pause was announced.
The limited scope is the central point. A halt in one sector does not amount to a wider de-escalation, and the reporting shows fighting continuing elsewhere on the same day. Separately, the Kremlin said the Oleshky arrangement could serve as a precedent for other initiatives, according to the Giornale di Brescia, a claim that has not been matched by any broader pause in the reporting.
Casualties and damage in the capital
Kyiv's mayor, Vitali Klitschko, said the Pivdennyi bridge in the south of the capital was hit, and that metro infrastructure was also damaged, Sky TG24 reported. In a message on Telegram, the mayor said that from the evening of 26 October, attacks on the capital had killed one person and injured 14 residents, nine of whom were taken to hospital.
The bridge carries both road and rail traffic. Russia's defence ministry said on Telegram that the crossing was used to move military supplies by road and rail, according to the same reporting. Earlier, Russian forces struck an administrative building in Kyiv's Podilskyi district and two other non-residential buildings, Sky TG24 reported.
Moscow also said its overnight strikes with precision weapons and drones had targeted Ukrainian military and industrial infrastructure and transport hubs in Kyiv and the Kharkiv region. According to the Russian defence ministry, the strikes damaged the Oakline drone assembly plant in Kyiv, which it said produces and stores long- and medium-range Fire Point FP-1 and FP-2 drones, and hit a customs terminal at a regional logistics centre in Kharkiv. The ministry further said a merchant vessel carrying cargo for Ukrainian forces was struck near the port of Chornomorsk in the Odesa region.
Kharkiv and Bryansk
In Kharkiv, mayor Ihor Terekhov said on Telegram that attacks in the Novobavarskyi district had killed two people and injured four, with apartment blocks, private houses and vehicles damaged, according to Sky TG24.
On the Russian side, the governor of the Bryansk region, Egor Kovalchuk, said a Ukrainian drone attack killed one man in the Bezhitsky district, describing an explosive device dropped from a drone. He said six people were injured in a separate drone strike in the Sovietsky district, the outlet reported.
Russia's defence ministry also said its air defences intercepted and destroyed 222 fixed-wing Ukrainian drones overnight, over regions including Novgorod, Tver, Belgorod, Bryansk, Kursk, Kaluga, Oryol, Tula, Voronezh, Smolensk, Rostov and Krasnodar, as well as Crimea, which Russia annexed in 2014, and the Black Sea.
A separate front in the West Bank
Sky TG24's live coverage also reported unrest in the occupied West Bank before polling stations opened in Israel. Israeli settlers set fire to three vehicles in the village of Umm Safa, northwest of Ramallah, according to the outlet.
Marwan al-Sabah, head of the local council, told the Palestinian news agency Wafa that the attackers entered the village after midnight, burned the vehicles and painted racist slogans on several walls, Sky TG24 reported. Israeli security forces tightened restrictions across the West Bank around the election, including a recent operation in Hebron. According to figures cited from the Palestinian administration, 4,969 people from 780 families have been displaced by Israeli military action, the outlet said, and movement to and from Ramallah has been restricted, with access points closed and checkpoints set up on alternative routes. Israeli forces also carried out arrests and questioning in Qabatiya, Jaba and Maythalun south of Jenin, according to the same reporting.
Israelis are voting in an election whose outcome Sky TG24 describes as uncertain and consequential for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
What to watch
The key question is whether the Oleshky pause holds and whether it is extended or repeated elsewhere, as the Kremlin has suggested it could be, while strikes continue across the rest of the country.
