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Anti-drone nets stretched over a street during a local ceasefire linked to efforts to evacuate residents of Oleshky, in Kherson, Ukraine, Tuesday. AP-Yonhap<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

KHERSON, Ukraine \u2014 Russia and Ukraine began observing a localized ceasefire in a devastated southern Ukrainian city on Tuesday, ahead of a planned humanitarian mission the White House said was brokered by U.S. first lady Melania Trump. Moscow kept up its deadly missile attacks on other cities in the meantime.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Finland\u2019s president and Norway\u2019s prime minister spoke by phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin, officials said, in their first known direct contact since shortly after Russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine began on Feb. 24, 2022.<\/p>\n

Many Western officials have accused Putin of masterminding a campaign of disruption across Europe and have sought to diplomatically isolate the Russian leader.<\/p>\n

Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr St\u00f8re and Finnish President Alexander Stubb later spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, according to Zelenskyy’s office.<\/p>\n

A ceasefire takes hold in a southern Ukraine city, officials say<\/strong><\/p>\n

A local pause in fighting started at 3 a.m. to allow an aid mission into the Russian-occupied city of Oleshky this week. Food and medical supplies are running perilously low in Oleshky, where drones and land mines restrict movement for as many as 2,000 people who remain.<\/p>\n

The humanitarian truce is a high-stakes operation for Moscow and Kyiv, which are both keen to win U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s favor. Earlier attempts at limited ceasefires have quickly unraveled or never took hold due to the deep mistrust between Russia and Ukraine.<\/p>\n

Russian and Ukrainian negotiators and their militaries confirmed in separate statements that the Oleshky ceasefire had begun.<\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s occupying forces impose strict limits on who can enter Oleshky.<\/p>\n

Ksenia Arkhipova, who fled the city in 2022 and now, as a volunteer, helps others leave, said some residents have told her they fear Russian officials may \u201cfilter out\u201d evacuees with pro-Ukraine views.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople say they are genuinely afraid that the Russians will check their phones and look for evidence of Ukrainian relatives or ties to the Armed Forces of Ukraine \u2014 something they have done repeatedly in other occupied territories,\u201d Arkhipova, who lives in Ukraine, told The Associated Press by phone.<\/p>\n

Nordic leaders say Putin call was \u2018frank and substantive\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

The phone calls with the Russian and Ukrainian leaders followed an Oct. 20 meeting in Oslo between the two Nordic leaders, Zelenskyy and U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff.<\/p>\n

Stubb and St\u00f8re said they initiated the call with Putin, speaking with him for 90 minutes, to discuss the war and upcoming trilateral talks involving delegations from Russia, Ukraine and the United States that are expected to take place next month in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The talks will seek to lay the groundwork for detailed peace negotiations.<\/p>\n

The leaders said in statements they spoke for their own countries, not for Europe as a whole.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe discussion was frank and substantive,\u201d Stubb said.<\/p>\n

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said she was \u201cvery skeptical\u201d of reaching out to Putin, saying she sees \u201cno signs that Russia desires peace with Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Kremlin gave no hint that Moscow is ready to back down from its key demands, saying in a statement that \u201cachieving a just and long-term peace is possible only if the legitimate interests of the Russian Federation are fully and unconditionally taken into account.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zelenskyy said Russian attacks, including relentless strikes on Ukraine\u2019s power grid, must stop in order to open a path to peace.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere must be peace, de-escalation is needed, and Russia must stop dragging out the war,\u201d Zelenskyy said on X.<\/p>\n

Melania Trump and Pope Leo separately worked for a truce in Oleshky<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to her office, Melania Trump led talks with civilian negotiators from Russia and Ukraine after meeting with U.N. officials who briefed her on the situation in Oleshky.<\/p>\n

Russian drones have repeatedly attacked Ukrainian soldiers and civilians in Ukrainian-held parts of the Kherson region, which includes Oleshky.<\/p>\n

Pope Leo XIV spoke this month with Zelenskyy and Putin, urging them to allow humanitarian aid into Oleshky and the safe evacuation of civilians, the Vatican said.<\/p>\n

Negotiators involved in the aid mission said doctors, medicines, food supplies and water would be taken to Oleshky before evacuation corridors opened.<\/p>\n

Moscow and Kyiv have blamed each other for the humanitarian crisis.<\/p>\n

Under international law, the occupying power \u2014 Russia \u2014 must ensure civilians under its occupation live safely. Ukraine has repeatedly tried to negotiate with Moscow to establish a humanitarian corridor for evacuations and aid delivery.<\/p>\n

Kherson residents take advantage of the lull in fighting<\/strong><\/p>\n

The local ceasefire is due to continue until 10:59 p.m. local time on Sunday, according to Davyd Arakhamia, a lawmaker with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy\u2019s Servant of the People party.<\/p>\n

Its geographical scope was unclear, though it was centered on Oleshky and other nearby parts of the Kherson region.<\/p>\n

Oleshky is about 550 kilometers (340 miles) southeast of Kyiv. It sits on the Russian-occupied side of the Dnipro River, across from the Ukrainian-held city of Kherson, the regional capital.<\/p>\n

In Kherson, the streets were busier than usual and long lines formed at bus stops as residents used the truce to run errands.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s unusual when it\u2019s this quiet,\u201d said Oleksandra Kostenko, who runs a small coffee kiosk. \u201cWe\u2019re used to it being loud \u2014 the buzzing, the booming.\u201d<\/p>\n

But she fears Russia will use the lull to stockpile drones.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will end, and they will terrorize us,\u201d Kostenko said.<\/p>\n

Kherson bears the deep scars of war \u2014 windows boarded up, anti-drone nets stretched over streets and shattered glass littering sidewalks.<\/p>\n

Yuliia Orlova was waiting for a bus to visit her mother in a district along the Dnipro where shelling usually makes travel too dangerous.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt seems quiet today, so I decided to go see my mom,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Russian missiles kill at least 3 civilians in Ukraine, officials say<\/strong><\/p>\n

Minutes after 3 a.m., multiple ballistic missile explosions shook Kyiv and air alerts sounded across the country.<\/p>\n

Russian ballistic missiles damaged the grounds of a university in Kyiv, killing one person and leaving 12 wounded, city officials said. In Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, authorities said attacks late Monday killed two people and wounded four others.<\/p>\n

In total, Russia launched 16 ballistic missiles and more than 280 drones across 11 regions of Ukraine, Zelenskyy said.<\/p>\n

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