{"id":359177,"date":"2025-08-20T10:22:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T10:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/359177\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T10:22:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T10:22:15","slug":"why-first-lady-olena-zelenska-wrote-melania-trump-a-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/359177\/","title":{"rendered":"Why First Lady Olena Zelenska wrote Melania Trump a letter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zelensky praised Melania “for her attention to one of the most painful and difficult issues of this war – the abduction of Ukrainian children by Russia,” adding “we deeply appreciate her compassion”.<\/p>\n

“This issue lies at the heart of the war’s humanitarian tragedy \u2013 our children, broken families, the pain of separation.”<\/p>\n

Ukraine’s president continued: “Her voice matters, and her care gives strength to this cause.”<\/p>\n

The Ukrainian government says around 19,500 children, external<\/a> have been deported and\/or forcibly removed from their homes to Russia or Russian-occupied territories, with roughly 1,500 returned.<\/p>\n

In 2023, the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for the Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Children’s Rights Commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova for the alleged unlawful deportation of children<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Russia denies the accusation and says it has protected vulnerable children by moving them from a war zone for their own safety.<\/p>\n

The return of children is part of Ukraine’s position in peace negotiations with Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Zelensky praised Melania “for her attention to one of the most painful and difficult issues of this war…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359178,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7654],"tags":[2000,299,657],"class_list":{"0":"post-359177","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ukraine","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115060601297023196","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}