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Airport checks and stretcher transfers mark Oleshky evacuees' journey

The report follows the practical challenges of moving residents and their pets through Russia and Belarus toward Ukrainian-held territory.

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0:00Residents gather in the rain with bags and pets before departure.
4:47Evacuees describe learning about the departure opportunity and their lives under occupation.
8:49The route passes destroyed buildings, shops and gas stations.
10:25At Anapa airport, passengers undergo luggage and document checks alongside their pets.
16:25People on stretchers and animal cages are transferred to and from an Il-76 transport aircraft.
19:12Lubinets greets a woman in a wheelchair as the group approaches the Ukrainian border.

At Anapa airport, evacuees from Oleshky wait with luggage and animal carriers while documents are checked. Later, people on stretchers are transferred to and from an Il-76 military transport aircraft. Leaving home is only the beginning of the journey shown in this report.

Ukraine's Television News Service (TSN) follows an evacuation it says brought 750 residents out of Russian-occupied Oleshky over two days, taking them through Russia and Belarus toward Ukrainian-held territory. Oleshky is in southern Ukraine's Kherson region, on the left bank of the Dnipro River.

The footage begins with residents gathering in the rain, carrying bags and bringing their pets. Ambulances and minibuses travel along damaged roads, passing ruined buildings, shops and gas stations. Ukraine's parliamentary human rights commissioner, Dmytro Lubinets, meets people preparing to leave.

Asked about their lives and how they learned they could get out, one woman says everyone is waiting for peace, describing it as the most important thing. Another evacuee describes the journey as very difficult but says it is going well.

At the airport terminal, the operation becomes a sequence of checks and transfers. Staff record passengers' surnames and dates of birth before boarding evacuation buses. Animal cages travel alongside their owners; medical workers help passengers who cannot make the transfers unaided. Tatyana Moskalkova, identified in the report as Russia's human rights commissioner, also appears during the operation.

The broadcaster attributes the evacuation agreement to international negotiations involving Ukraine, the United States and the U.S. first lady. Its description also reports hunger, mines and drone attacks on civilians as conditions residents endured under occupation.

Near the end, Lubinets greets an older woman in a wheelchair. A journalist reassures her that the border is close and she will soon be in Ukraine, a reminder that even after the flight and repeated transfers, the journey is not yet finished.