Melania Trump’s back-channel efforts to effect the return of Ukrainian children who’ve been kidnapped by Russian forces have been lauded by both President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
And the first lady’s push has also been hailed by children’s advocates, who’ve been sounding the alarm over Moscow’s practice of seizing kids and forcibly re-educating them in Russia to erase their Ukrainian identities. But some of those same advocates now fear she is making herself an unwitting tool of the Russian leader and helping whitewash Moscow’s culpability for the practice.
