<p>Alaska: US President Donald Trump's wife, Melania Trump, raised the plight of children in Ukraine and Russia in a personal letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin, two White House officials said on Friday.</p><p>President Trump hand-delivered the letter to Putin during their summit talks in Alaska, the officials told <em>Reuters</em>. Slovenian-born Melania Trump was not on the trip to Alaska.</p><p>The officials would not divulge the contents of the letter other than to say it mentioned the abductions of children resulting from the war in Ukraine.</p><p>The existence of the letter was not previously reported.</p><p>Russia's seizure of Ukrainian children has been a deeply sensitive one for Ukraine.</p>.Trump-Putin Alaska Summit Highlights| Meeting with Putin 'a 10': Trump.<p>Ukraine has called the abductions of tens of thousands of its children taken to Russia or Russian-occupied territory without the consent of family or guardians a war crime that meets the UN treaty definition of genocide.</p><p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy conveyed his gratitude to the first lady on his call with Trump on Saturday, Ukraine's foreign minister said.</p><p>"This is a true act of humanism," Andrii Sybiha added on X.</p><p>Previously Moscow has said it has been protecting vulnerable children from a war zone.</p><p>The United Nations Human Rights Office has said Russia has inflicted suffering on millions of Ukrainian children and violated their rights since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.</p><p>Trump and Putin met for nearly three hours at a US military base in Anchorage without reaching a ceasefire deal in the war in Ukraine. </p>
<p>Alaska: US President Donald Trump's wife, Melania Trump, raised the plight of children in Ukraine and Russia in a personal letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin, two White House officials said on Friday.</p><p>President Trump hand-delivered the letter to Putin during their summit talks in Alaska, the officials told <em>Reuters</em>. Slovenian-born Melania Trump was not on the trip to Alaska.</p><p>The officials would not divulge the contents of the letter other than to say it mentioned the abductions of children resulting from the war in Ukraine.</p><p>The existence of the letter was not previously reported.</p><p>Russia's seizure of Ukrainian children has been a deeply sensitive one for Ukraine.</p>.Trump-Putin Alaska Summit Highlights| Meeting with Putin 'a 10': Trump.<p>Ukraine has called the abductions of tens of thousands of its children taken to Russia or Russian-occupied territory without the consent of family or guardians a war crime that meets the UN treaty definition of genocide.</p><p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy conveyed his gratitude to the first lady on his call with Trump on Saturday, Ukraine's foreign minister said.</p><p>"This is a true act of humanism," Andrii Sybiha added on X.</p><p>Previously Moscow has said it has been protecting vulnerable children from a war zone.</p><p>The United Nations Human Rights Office has said Russia has inflicted suffering on millions of Ukrainian children and violated their rights since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.</p><p>Trump and Putin met for nearly three hours at a US military base in Anchorage without reaching a ceasefire deal in the war in Ukraine. </p>