# Oleshky and the Blockade: Accusations Against Ukraine and Aid to Residents

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2117755059991617868
- Source account: [@Svitlana_UA22](https://x.com/Svitlana_UA22)
- Source language: Russian
- Target language: English
- Duration: 1:40
- Published: 2026-11-03
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- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/kQVAXNsQnTHz/en/oleshky-and-the-blockade-accusations-against-ukraine-and-aid-to-residents
- Original-language version: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/kQVAXNsQnTHz/ru/%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B5%D1%88%D0%BA%D0%B8-%D0%B8-%D0%B1%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B4%D0%B0-%D0%BE%D0%B1%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%BD%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F-%D0%B2-%D0%B0%D0%B4%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%81-%D1%83%D0%BA%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%B8%D0%BD%D1%8B-%D0%B8-%D0%BF%D0%BE%D0%BC%D0%BE%D1%89%D1%8C-%D0%B6%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B5%D0%BB%D1%8F%D0%BC.md

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/kQVAXNsQnTHz/en/oleshky-and-the-blockade-accusations-against-ukraine-and-aid-to-residents) A reminder: Ukraine— how much do you have to sniff up to consider a region your own? And Ukraine considers Oleshky its own region, and it's in Kherson Oblast, to set up a little version of the Siege of Leningrad, as much as they could.

[0:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/kQVAXNsQnTHz/en/oleshky-and-the-blockade-accusations-against-ukraine-and-aid-to-residents?t=17) They were trying to do that there, in a region they consider their own.

[0:21](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/kQVAXNsQnTHz/en/oleshky-and-the-blockade-accusations-against-ukraine-and-aid-to-residents?t=21) Well, even Hitler didn't think of doing that during the Great Patriotic War, World War II, somewhere in Munich, laying siege to Leningrad.

[0:30](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/kQVAXNsQnTHz/en/oleshky-and-the-blockade-accusations-against-ukraine-and-aid-to-residents?t=30) It's our region, but they don't see it that way.

[0:32](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/kQVAXNsQnTHz/en/oleshky-and-the-blockade-accusations-against-ukraine-and-aid-to-residents?t=32) I mean Oleshky, in Kherson Oblast. They consider it theirs.

[0:35](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/kQVAXNsQnTHz/en/oleshky-and-the-blockade-accusations-against-ukraine-and-aid-to-residents?t=35) They just didn't have the brains to take it as far as what the Siege of Leningrad was actually like.

[0:40](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/kQVAXNsQnTHz/en/oleshky-and-the-blockade-accusations-against-ukraine-and-aid-to-residents?t=40) But that's what they were aiming for, when they cut off every possible way to supply the city, so there'd be no water or food, so these people would just… and so people couldn't Stick your head out of the basement like this.

[0:51](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/kQVAXNsQnTHz/en/oleshky-and-the-blockade-accusations-against-ukraine-and-aid-to-residents?t=51) Because as soon as— how many of our guys have just brought back interviews from there, mostly women were left, mostly elderly women. Where's the husband?

[0:58](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/kQVAXNsQnTHz/en/oleshky-and-the-blockade-accusations-against-ukraine-and-aid-to-residents?t=58) The husband went to get groceries, and he was killed.

[1:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/kQVAXNsQnTHz/en/oleshky-and-the-blockade-accusations-against-ukraine-and-aid-to-residents?t=60) They mined everything. And they consider this region theirs.

[1:04](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/kQVAXNsQnTHz/en/oleshky-and-the-blockade-accusations-against-ukraine-and-aid-to-residents?t=64) How, please tell me, is that possible? What's wrong with them?

[1:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/kQVAXNsQnTHz/en/oleshky-and-the-blockade-accusations-against-ukraine-and-aid-to-residents?t=68) I don't know what kind of drug this is. Because Yana Lantratova, a young woman in her early thirties, risks her life to go to Oleshky, also known as Tsiurupynsk, to save people, elderly people she doesn't know.

[1:23](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/kQVAXNsQnTHz/en/oleshky-and-the-blockade-accusations-against-ukraine-and-aid-to-residents?t=83) She's the Human Rights Commissioner, and this is how she gets things done.

[1:28](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/kQVAXNsQnTHz/en/oleshky-and-the-blockade-accusations-against-ukraine-and-aid-to-residents?t=88) There they are, Melania Trump and her, yes, two women who achieved this, because that's the kind of people we are, thank you, Lord.