New Delhi, Oct. 24 -- After more than a year of efforts by US President Donald Trump to negotiate a truce between Russia and Ukraine, First Lady Melania Trump announced on Friday (local time) that she had brokered a ceasefire between the two countries, which have been at war since February 2022.

The localised ceasefire, set to begin next week in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian city of Oleshky, aims to allow humanitarian aid deliveries and the evacuation of civilians from a place she said is "on the brink of disaster."

A truce deal was agreed upon on Friday by Ukrainian, Russian, and US negotiators to provide humanitarian relief in the Russian-occupied, war-torn town of Oleshky, situated in the Kherson region of southern Ukraine.

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