US first lady Melania Trump dispatches personal letters to Russian president Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky via their envoys during a meeting at the White House. (EPA Images pic)WASHINGTON: 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.
"Now we must use the courage we brought to Oleshky to find common ground through a shared concern for the suffering of innocent people," Melania Trump told reporters.
