US President Donald Trump handed Vladimir Putin a special item at their Alaska summit: a letter written by his wife, First Lady Melania Trump, pleading for the Russian leader to make peace in the name of children.<\/p>\n
The first lady’s office on Saturday reposted a Fox News article on X containing the short letter, a day after Trump and Putin failed to find a breakthrough at their high-stakes meeting.<\/p>\n
Putin read the “peace letter” immediately after Trump handed it to him, while delegations from both sides looked on, according to Fox News.<\/p>\n
“In today’s world, some children are forced to carry a quiet laughter, untouched by the darkness around them,” read the letter, which was signed by the first lady and did not mention Ukraine by name.<\/p>\n
“Mr Putin, you can singlehandedly restore their melodic laughter,” it added. “In protecting the innocence of these children, you will do more than serve Russia alone — you serve humanity itself.”<\/p>\n
“Such a bold idea transcends all human division, and you, Mr Putin, are fit to implement this vision with a stroke of the pen today,” the letter read. “It is time.”<\/p>\n
In July, the US president had said that his wife, who was born in Slovenia, had helped change his thinking about Putin.<\/p>\n
“I go home, I tell the first lady, ‘you know, I spoke to Vladimir today, we had a wonderful conversation,'” Trump said.<\/p>\n
“And she said, ‘Oh really? Another city was just hit.'”<\/p>\n
Trump attempted a rapprochement with Putin shortly after starting his second term, having campaigned on a pledge to end the Ukraine war within 24 hours.<\/p>\n
During the early months of his new term, he largely directed anger at Ukraine for the lack of a deal, but gradually began expressing frustration that Putin continued his attacks on Ukraine.<\/p>\n
Before the summit in Alaska, Trump had warned of “severe consequences” if Russia did not accept a ceasefire.<\/p>\n
However after meeting with Putin, Trump dropped his demand for a ceasefire, saying the best way to end the war “is to go directly to a peace agreement.”<\/p>\n
Putin has long argued for negotiations on a final peace deal — a strategy that Ukraine and its European allies have criticized as a way to buy time and press Russia’s battlefield advances.<\/p>\n
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