Melania Is Accused of Handing Putin His ‘Greatest Victory’

The Daily Beast · Anna Nemtsova ·

The first lady may have fallen straight into the Kremlin’s trap.

The first lady may have fallen straight into the Kremlin’s trap.

Vladimir Putin has used the evacuation of a war-ravaged city brokered by Melania Trump as a propaganda tool to portray himself as a humanitarian, Ukrainian human rights figures claim.

Around 700 Ukrainians were evacuated from Oleshky, a frontline Russian-occupied city in Kherson where 1,700 people have been on the brink of starvation after nearly five years trapped in the hellish war zone.

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