Melania Trump says she has 'open communication channel' with Putin about Ukrainian youngsters

[ad_1] First Woman Melania Trump says Russian President Vladimir Putin responded to her letter of concern in regards to the little one victims of the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

She made the announcement on Friday, saying that after an "open channel of communication" with Putin, Ukranian youngsters displaced within the conflict had been reunited with households.

The First Woman's "peace letter" was hand delivered to Putin throughout his Alaska go to in August.

President Donald Trump shared elements of the letter on social media. In it, the primary girl pleads with Putin to guard youngsters, writing that doing so "will do greater than serve Russia alone" and "will serve humanity itself".

"Eight youngsters have been rejoined with their households throughout the previous 24 hours," Mrs Trump mentioned, flanked by American flags behind a podium within the White Home.

"Every little one has lived in turmoil due to the conflict in Ukraine."

Of the eight youngsters, the First Woman mentioned three separated from their households had been displaced to Russia due to front-line combating.

One other younger woman displaced by the battle has now been returned from Ukraine to Russia, Mrs Trump says.

The kids's reunification with their households was facilitated by each Ukraine and Russia, the First Woman mentioned, including that she was given an in depth report with pictures and the "identities and circumstances" of every little one.

The US authorities "confirmed the information", she mentioned.

Mrs Trump mentioned she has "discovered quite a bit about this matter" since her letter was first handed to Putin. She mentioned he responded in writing.

In her letter, the First Woman wrote: "Each little one shares the identical quiet desires of their coronary heart... They dream of affection, risk, and security from hazard."

The announcement marks a optimistic growth in her advocacy for youngsters from the White Home, which started throughout President Trump's first time period.

She launched the BE BEST initiative in January 2021, which the White Home describes as an consciousness marketing campaign centered across the well-being of kids globally.

Earlier this yr, the First Woman led an initiative for Congress to go a invoice banning revenge porn known as the Take It Down Act. After the invoice was signed, she mentioned it was "a strong assertion that we stand united in defending the dignity, privateness, and security of our kids".

In response to the Ukrainian authorities, no less than 19,500 Ukrainian youngsters have been deported and forcibly displaced from their houses to Russia and Russian-occupied territories since February 2022.

Simply 1,605 have come dwelling to this point, in response to the federal government's Youngsters of Conflict database, exterior.

The Worldwide Legal Court docket issued an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Youngsters's Rights Commissioner, Maria Lvova-Belova, in 2023 for the alleged illegal deportation of kids.