First Lady Melina’s Peace Letter to Putin: Urges Him to ‘Protect Children Around the Globe’

First Lady Melina’s Peace Letter to Putin: Melania Trump has written a letter to Vladimir Putin asking for peace and had her husband President Donald Trump hand deliver it to him during their meeting in Alaska.

The letter doesn’t mention Ukraine, which Putin’s forces invaded in 2022, but asks him to think of children and "an innocence which stands above geography, government, and ideology".

It doesn’t mention the fighting, except to tell Putin he can “single-handedly restore” the “melodic laughter” of children who have been caught in the conflict.

The letter starts “Dear President Putin” and says all children, no matter where they are born – a rural village or a big city – have the same quiet dreams of love, opportunity and safety.

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"As parents, it is our duty to nurture the next generation’s hope. As leaders, the responsibility to sustain our children extends beyond the comfort of a few,” she said.

The first lady continued that "in today’s world, some children are forced to carry a quiet laughter, untouched by the darkness around them—a silent defiance against the forces that can potentially claim their future."

"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," she wrote. "It is time."

Mrs. Trump’s “peace letter” was written before her husband’s meeting with Putin in Anchorage, Alaska, Friday. The high stakes meeting was the first US-Russia summit since June 2021, which was under former President Joe Biden’s administration and eight months before Putin invaded Ukraine.

It urges a collective pursuit of global dignity and peace.

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“Undeniably, we must strive to paint a dignity-filled world for all—so that every soul may wake to peace, and so that the future itself is perfectly guarded," read the letter.

It ends with a reminder of the shared innocence that transcends political and geographic boundaries.

The letter comes a month after Ukraine accused Russia of abducting children during its ongoing invasion, forcing them into military service once they turn 18 and sending them to fight against their own people. Andriy Yermak, chief of staff to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, said it’s a “coordinated, state-driven plan” approved by Mr Putin.

The Yale Humanitarian Research Lab, which partnered with Kyiv to trace missing Ukrainian children, documented dozens of Russian-run indoctrination camps, reported The New York Post. According to the report, children are immersed in Russian culture, forbidden from speaking Ukrainian and shaped into what the Kremlin calls “ideal citizens” in the camps.

In 2023 the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant to Mr Putin, citing child abductions as a central charge. The Kremlin however denied any wrongdoing and called the warrant"outrageous and unacceptable".

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