War in Ukraine. "Make children laugh again": a letter signed by Melania Trump sent to Vladimir Putin

While welcoming Vladimir Putin to Alaska with great fanfare, Donald Trump entrusted him with a "message of peace" for Ukraine allegedly written by his wife and US First Lady Melania Trump , reports Fox News television.

Melania Trump republished on her X account on Saturday an article from the channel preferred by American conservatives which reports on this brief letter, the day after the Anchorage summit where the President of the United States did not obtain from his Russian counterpart a ceasefire agreement in Ukraine.

According to Fox News, President Putin immediately read Melania Trump's "message of peace," which her husband had just given him. In this letter signed by the First Lady, Ukraine is never mentioned, but Melania Trump asks the Kremlin leader to "make children laugh again," to "protect the innocence of these children," in order to "do more than just serve Russia, (but) serve all of humanity."

Donald Trump abandoned any demand for a prior ceasefire in Ukraine on Saturday, instead advocating a "peace agreement" to end the conflict, a major reversal after his meeting in Alaska with Vladimir Putin, which yielded no apparent concrete results. Before the Anchorage summit, the US president had threatened Russia with "very serious consequences" if hostilities did not cease.

In July, Donald Trump, who had then toughened his stance against Vladimir Putin, said that his Slovenian-born wife had changed his perception of the Kremlin leader. "I come home and I say to the First Lady, 'You know, I spoke to Vladimir today and we had a wonderful conversation,'" the US president said at the time. Before adding: "And she said to me, 'Oh really? Another city just got hit' in Ukraine."