Russia’s blockade of Oleshky confirmed: 100 bodies unburied in hospital basement

Four months after local media first reported the siege, major international monitors have now confirmed Russia’s blockade of the occupied town of Oleshky. The United Nations, Human Rights Watch, the Institute for the Study of War, and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe all verified the blockade. An exiled official said 100 bodies lie unburied in the town’s hospital basement. Residents are starving, and the dead cannot be buried due to the blockade. The monitors’ reports describe a humanitarian crisis in the occupied area.