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

[ad_1] First Girl Melania Trump says Russian President Vladimir Putin responded to her letter of concern concerning the baby 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 Girl's "peace letter" was hand delivered to Putin throughout his Alaska go to in August.

President Donald Trump shared components of the letter on social media. In it, the primary woman 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 in the course of the previous 24 hours," Mrs Trump mentioned, flanked by American flags behind a podium within the White Home.

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

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

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

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

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

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

In her letter, the First Girl wrote: "Each baby shares the identical quiet desires of their coronary heart... They dream of affection, chance, and security from hazard."

The announcement marks a constructive 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 12 months, the First Girl 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 line with the Ukrainian authorities, not 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 house to date, based on the federal government's Youngsters of Warfare database, exterior.

The Worldwide Prison 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.