OleshkyHundreds left on Friday inside a four-hour window.
The White House counted up to 2,000 residents in a town without power, heat or water.
Russia’s rights commissioner said 25 buses stood ready and two people died demining the roads.
Evacuations were set to end at 2pm local time, and the six-day US-brokered truce is due to expire.
How each outlet framed it
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- BBC
- frames the evacuation through a BBC Ukraine correspondent's explainer on what happens next, with the story's focus on the ceasefire's durability
- News18
- names Russian rights commissioner Lantratova and Ukraine's Lubinets as joint operation coordinators, and quotes Lantratova's Tass video on buses boarding
- Yahoo News
- verifies a Russian demining explosion video by matching road layout and utility poles to archive and satellite images, dating it before October 29
- Al Jazeera Online
- quantifies the evacuation capacity at 25 buses with 750+ seats and reports two deaths in the demining effort
- Українська правда
- relays Servant of the People faction head Arakhamiia's claim the Ukrainian delegation reached Oleshky, with Lubinets posting video from inside the town
Sources: BBC, News18, Yahoo News, Al Jazeera Online, Українська правда