Melania Trump has emerged as an unexpected diplomatic player in the Ukraine conflict, with both Moscow and Kyiv crediting her team as the driving force behind an evacuation of a besieged city. Both sides also had reason to want her to claim a humanitarian victory.<\/p>\n
She is now hosting representatives from Russia and Ukraine at the White House, following what has been described as an unprecedented humanitarian ceasefire she helped broker.<\/p>\n
Source:<\/strong> The New York Times \u2014 How Melania Trump Became a Dark Horse Diplomat on Ukraine<\/a>. Also reported by NBC News<\/a>.<\/p>\n AI-assisted summary; the reporting is the source's. Read the original at the link.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Melania Trump has emerged as an unexpected diplomatic player in the Ukraine conflict, with both…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[94,382,381,92,91],"class_list":["post-473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ukraine","tag-ceasefire","tag-diplomacy","tag-melania-trump","tag-russia","tag-ukraine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}