Melania Trump Calls for 'Enduring' Ukraine Truce as Rivals Meet at White House
Melania Trump said the Oleshky truce showed cooperation can help deliver aid, evacuations and demining as she sent personal letters to Putin and Zelensky.
- On Thursday, First Lady Melania Trump hosted Russian and Ukrainian officials at the White House, calling for a "more enduring" ceasefire in the ongoing Ukraine war.
- The session builds on a localized six-day truce in Oleshky brokered last month, featuring rare cooperation between Russian human rights ombudsman Yana Lantratova and Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Lubinets.
- First Lady Melania Trump sent personal letters to Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, while accepting the Order of Princess Olga, First Class, for her humanitarian mediation.
- Ahead of trilateral talks in Abu Dhabi next week, Zelensky reported a "very detailed, hour-and-a-half-long" conversation with US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner regarding peace frameworks.
- President Donald Trump, who promised to end the war within 24 hours of taking office, faces intermittent diplomatic progress as the Iran conflict has dominated his attention this year.
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For the first time since the beginning of the war, a Kremlin envoy takes the floor at an event at the White House. The First Lady announces that she has written letters to Putin and Selenskyj. Melania Trump asks the representatives of Ukraine and Russia to transmit them.
The US first lady is alleged to have played a key role in the ceasefire in southern Ukraine.
US First Lady Melania Trump announced on Thursday that she had written letters to Presidents Vladimir Putin and Wolodymyr Selenskyj. She asked Russian and Ukrainian negotiators to transmit them. On Thursday, representatives from the two countries met in the White House personally for the first time.
Melania Trump calls for 'enduring' Ukraine truce as rivals meet at White House
US First Lady Melania Trump hands letters for Russian President Putin and Ukrainian President Zelensky to Russia's presidential envoy Kirill Dmitriev (L) and Leader of the Servant of the People's Political Party of Ukraine David Arakhamia. Photo: AFP
The First Lady of the United States hopes that the humanitarian operation in the occupied Oleškas will be the beginning of a broader peace process, as she said at a meeting in the White House, where representatives of Ukraine and Russia were present.
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