Donald Trump has released the full letter his wife Melania wrote to Vladimir Putin which he handed over to the Russian dictator during a recent summit. Trump and Putin met in Alaska recently to discuss a potential ceasefire over Russia's invasion of Ukraine, though representatives of the Ukrainian government were notably not invited to the meeting.

Melania Trump wrote a personal letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin for President Donald Trump to hand-deliver during the Alaska summit. The two world leaders sat down together in Anchorage on Aug.

The first lady did not attend the summit between President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday.

Melania Trump ’s message to Putin appeared to urge the Russian President to end the war in Ukraine and highlighted the plight of children caught in the middle of the conflict. The note, which Donald Trump handed to his fellow leader in Alaska, did not refer directly to the war, but said ‘it is time’ to change things, reported Fox News.

Ukrainians expressed anger and frustration on Saturday over the failure of the U.S. and Russian presidents to agree on the need for a truce in the Ukraine war at a summit, and the sight of Donald Trump giving Vladimir Putin a red-carpet welcome in Alaska.

US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin speak at a joint event Friday following their summit in Anchorage, Alaska. (With English translation of Putin’s remarks in Russian.) (Sou