Kherson ceasefire ends as Russia rejects extension offer
The six-day localised truce in Ukraine's Kherson region expired on Sunday without an extension.
The longest multi-day truce in the Russia-Ukraine war ended on Sunday night in the eastern Kherson region. According to Al Jazeera, the ceasefire, which ran from October 27 to November 1, concluded without reported violations but with no sign of an extension.
A Ukrainian official told AFP that Moscow declined a proposal from Kyiv to prolong the truce. The six-day pause in the Oleshky area was brokered by US First Lady Melania Trump and involved Pope Leo XIV.
The truce allowed for a joint humanitarian operation to evacuate residents from the Russian-occupied town of Oleshky. Ukraine’s Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights, Dmytro Lubinets, described the temporary pause as an important step for joint humanitarian efforts.
Kherson Governor Oleksandr Prokudin urged residents to remain vigilant as the ceasefire expired, noting that the threat to life near the Dnipro River remains extremely high. Ukraine's military reported evacuating 167 more civilians from threatened areas in southern Kherson on Sunday.
Fighting continued elsewhere on Sunday, with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy stating that Russian strikes on energy infrastructure left hundreds of thousands of households without power. In Russia, authorities reported damage to an industrial site in the Nizhny Novgorod region following Ukrainian drone attacks.
Following the end of the truce, both nations reported cyberattacks on emergency warning applications. The Hindu reported that Russia's emergencies ministry and Ukraine's air force both addressed issues involving false information or compromised alerts on their respective apps.
