Melania Trump urges 'enduring' ceasefire at meeting with Ukrainian, Russian officials
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Russian and Ukrainian officials, including human rights chiefs, met US First Lady Melania Trump at the White House on Thursday ahead of Abu Dhabi talks aimed at ending the Ukraine war. The meeting comes weeks after Melania Trump helped broker a partial ceasefire enabling the evacuation of civilians from the Russian-occupied Ukrainian town of Oleshky.
Russian and Ukrainian officials, including human rights chiefs, met US First Lady Melania Trump at the White House on Thursday ahead of Abu Dhabi talks aimed at ending the Ukraine war. The meeting comes weeks after Melania Trump helped broker a partial ceasefire enabling the evacuation of civilians from the Russian-occupied Ukrainian town of Oleshky.
US First Lady Melania Trump called for a "more enduring" ceasefire in Ukraine as she hosted a rare meeting between officials from the war-torn country and its invader Russia at the White House on Thursday.
The unprecedented meeting hoped to build on a localised six-day truce in the starvation-hit Ukrainian city of Oleshky that US President Donald Trump's wife had announced last month.
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