U.S. first lady Melania Trump said \u200bon Wednesday she remains in contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s team in an effort to secure the return of more Ukrainian children \u2060from Russia. “I’m working on it, and we are in the \u200cprocess,” she \u2060told reporters at the White House. “I hope we have success very soon.” She did not share \u200ddetails about talks between her representatives and Putin’s team. An East Wing spokesman said the lines of communication had continued after Melania \u2060Trump wrote a letter to Putin — hand-delivered by her husband, President Donald Trump, last August — about abducted Ukrainian children. Fifteen children have been returned to Ukraine \u200csince the first lady started her advocacy, including seven children in December. Ukraine has accused Russia of abducting at least \u206019,000 of its children and taking them to Russia or Russian-occupied territory without the consent of family or guardians since it invaded Ukraine in February 2022. Russi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
U.S. first lady Melania Trump said \u200bon Wednesday she remains in contact with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s team in an effort to secure the return of more Ukrainian children \u2060from Russia. “I’m working on it, and we are in the \u200cprocess,” she \u2060told reporters at the White House. “I hope we have success very soon.” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"\n