The starving residents of Olshki must not become props in the Russian propaganda "Olshki is starving. The stories of the residents were well documented. Now, there seems to be light at the end of the tunnel: US First Lady Melania Trump has helped broker a temporary, local ceasefire agreement that, in theory, should take place from Tuesday, October 27. In the end, it was possible to provide necessary assistance, and the residents to evacuate," write Peter Pomerantsev, senior editor of the Accountability Project, and Eliade Naylor, a British-Estonian journalist and author, in this article. "But this city of weak, hungry and vulnerable people will face a new danger as Olshki slowly opens: under the pressure of life on the brink of death, they may become props for Russian propagandists trying to rewrite the history of what happened in the city," they write. Photo: Artem Priakin / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images.

The starving residents of Olshki must not become props in the Russian propaganda "Olshki is starving. The stories of the residents were well documented. Now, there seems to be light at the end of the tunnel: US First Lady Melania Trump has helped broker a temporary, local ceasefire agreement that, in theory, should take place from Tuesday, October 27. In the end, it was possible to provide necessary assistance, and the residents to evacuate," write Peter Pomerantsev, senior editor of the Accountability Project, and Eliade Naylor, a British-Estonian journalist and author, in this article. "But this city of weak, hungry and vulnerable people will face a new danger as Olshki slowly opens: under the pressure of life on the brink of death, they may become props for Russian propagandists trying to rewrite the history of what happened in the city," they write. Photo: Artem Priakin / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images.