Police White Angel unit evacuates eight seniors in Sumy Oblast
Police officers from the White Angel special unit helped evacuate eight elderly residents from the Sumy Region (Oblast) over two days, the National Police of Ukraine reported. They were brought out of the Svesa “hromada”, a local government area that includes one or more nearby settlements. The residents had remained within the 5km і border zone, unable to leave independently because of their age and health.
A video screenshotPeople requiring outside assistance to evacuate still remain in border settlements across the Sumy Oblast. Because of their age and health problems, it is difficult for them to pack their belongings and reach transport on their own.
Police officers help residents leave their homes, accompany them to evacuation vehicles and carefully carry those who cannot walk to the transport.
The police said behind every such evacuation lay a difficult farewell to home, anxiety about the future and the opportunity to save a life.
The White Angel special unit continues to assist border residents who, because of their circumstances, cannot leave the dangerous area on their own.
In early October this year, two evacuation teams from the White Angel police special unit evacuated four women aged between 61 and 90 from dangerous areas of the Sumy Oblast. The evacuations were carried out in the Svesa and Vorozhba hromadas.
Overnight on 20 October, Russian forces attacked Ukraine. Two women were killed and two other people were injured in the Khmelnytskyi Oblast. In Kyiv Oblast, four people were killed and six injured in a strike. The Kharkiv and Odesa oblasts were also attacked by Russia.
Previously, US President Donald Trump assisted Russia in enforcing its war economy by suspending tariffs and sanctions against the largest buyers of Russian oil. The measures were provided under the
Lindsey Graham Act, which he signed in September.
Reuters reported that Russian diesel cargoes are returning to their traditional destinations after Trump suspended sanctions and secured the lifting of an export ban, with at least two tankers signalling trips to Türkiye and Brazil lately, according to shipping data from Kpler and LSEG.
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Human rights organisations and Ukrainian authorities emphasise that structural economic pressure remains a key tool to halt such atrocities. They urge every nation and individual government worldwide to strictly enforce global sanctions, close existing regulatory loopholes, and completely sever remaining commercial and technological ties with the Russian Federation. Civil society groups stress that any continued cooperation by foreign businesses directly contributes to the resources Moscow uses to sustain its ongoing war crimes and crimes against humanity in Ukraine.
To provide background, on 9 October, the United States imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) as an institution. The court had previously issued arrest warrants for:
- Kremlin ruler Vladimir Putin and Russia’s Presidential Commissioner for Children’s Rights Maria Lvova-Belova over the alleged unlawful deportation and transfer of Ukrainian children from occupied territories to Russia (March 2023);
- military officials Sergei Kobylash and Viktor Sokolov over strikes on Ukrainian civilian infrastructure (March 2024);
- Sergei Shoigu and Valery Gerasimov over alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity linked to missile strikes on Ukraine’s electric infrastructure between 10 October 2022 and 9 March 2023 (June 2024).
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