Russia and Ukraine announced on Tuesday the beginning of a limited ceasefire in order to allow the opening of a humanitarian operation in the town of Olyushki, located in southern Ukraine and under Russian control. The Russian Ministry of Defense said it stopped shelling the city of Kherson in Ukraine starting at 4:00 a.m. Moscow time (01:00 GMT). The head of the Ukrainian negotiating team, Dmytro Lubintz, confirmed that the ceasefire began at that time. Russia and Ukraine have agreed to a limited ceasefire in the vicinity of the town of Olyushki, which allows the transfer of aid and the carrying out of evacuations from the town located on the front line, which suffers from an acute shortage of food and medicine.