Russia, Ukraine agree to Melania Trump-brokered localised ceasefire
President Trump says it was First Lady Melania Trump’s initiative that led to a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine in the Ukrainian city of Oleshky, which has been under Russian occupation for four years. The ceasefire is expected to begin in a week.
US First Lady Melania Trump has brought Russian and Ukrainian representatives together at the White House.
US first lady hosts Russian, Ukrainian officials at the White House, urges two sides to build on recent local truce.
The US first lady was credited by all for playing a key though unspecified role in the ceasefire.
Trump again said a major Russia-Ukraine deal is 'very close', but gave no specifics.
Russian and Ukrainian delegations will meet the US first lady at the White House on Thursday.
As war rages on in Kyiv and other cities, the first lady celebrates her single-city ceasefire with Russian and Ukrainian envoys Beaming from a podium in the White House’s Grand Foyer, Melania Trump welcomed senior Russian and Ukrainian officials on Thursday to celebrate a ceasefire in an embattled Ukrainian town for which she has become the unlikeliest broker. The evacuation from Oleshky, a frontline Ukrainian town now occupied by Russia where 800 people lived through a protracted humanitarian crisis, may seem like a sideshow at this point in the war.