Melania Trump Hand-Delivered Ukraine’s Stolen Children to Putin?
US First Lady Melania Trump personally appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin, urging action on the illegal abduction of Ukrainian children amid the ongoing war.
Reuters reports this, citing sources from the White House.
According to journalists, the letter from Melania Trump was personally delivered to Russian President Vladimir Putin by President Donald Trump during the negotiations in Alaska. Officials have not disclosed the full contents of the document but confirmed that it specifically addressed the issue of child abductions.
As of June 2025, Ukraine has officially confirmed the deportation of over 19,000 children. Efforts to secure their return are not limited to Kyiv alone: in 2023, the International Coalition for the Return of Ukrainian Children was established, comprising 41 countries and the Council of Europe. In 2024 alone, the coalition’s efforts enabled the return of approximately 600 children.
It is worth recalling that in 2023, the International Criminal Court in The Hague issued arrest warrants for Vladimir Putin and the Russian Commissioner for Children’s Rights, Maria Lvova-Belova, on suspicion of illegally removing children from occupied Ukrainian territories. That same year, the Office of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine launched an investigation into the possible involvement of the Belarusian Red Cross in these deportations.
As is known, on August 5, in Anchorage, Alaska, negotiations were held between US President Donald Trump and Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. In the run-up to the meeting, there were serious concerns in the expert and political community that the result of the negotiations would be an “exchange of territories”, that is, in fact, the legalization of the occupied Ukrainian lands by the Russian Federation.
Following the talks, Trump and Putin held a joint press conference. “Pryamyi” collected all the key statements by the leaders of the US and Russia. After the talks, the US President said that the summit was constructive and gave grounds for optimism. He announced consultations with NATO and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, but stressed that there are no final agreements yet.
In addition, Donald Trump said that both Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy want to see him present at a potential joint meeting on peace settlement in Ukraine. Trump also refused to impose new sanctions against Russia and confirmed that during the talks, he discussed territorial agreements and security guarantees for Ukraine.
Putin stressed after the talks that the war in Ukraine could only be resolved after its “fundamental causes” had been eliminated and the security balance in Europe had been restored. He called the meeting “mutually important” and invited the American leader to the next summit in Moscow.
Meanwhile, former US National Security Advisor John Bolton has harshly assessed the results of the meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Alaska, stating that the Russian dictator achieved most of what he wanted, while the American president received only the prospect of further conversations.
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