WASHINGTON: US First Lady Melania Trump will host “representatives” of Russia and Ukraine in Washington, the White House said Tuesday, without specifying a date or offering further details about who may attend.
The meeting between parties from the two warring countries will take place at the White House and represents an “extraordinary moment in American history,” the White House statement said.
“Mrs. Trump independently initiated engagement between the two warring nations and successfully secured a ceasefire in Oleshky and the surrounding Kherson region,” the statement read.
According to the White House, Melania Trump will deliver remarks on the ceasefire in Oleshky on Thursday.
First Lady Melania Trump to Convene Russian and Ukrainian Representatives at the White House on Thursday, November 5, 2026.
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Europe, US, Ukrainian negotiators meeting in Brussels
Meanwhile, the European Commission said that negotiators from Europe, Ukraine, the United States and NATO will hold talks Wednesday in Brussels ahead of the resumption next week of US-mediated talks.
President Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff had previously announced that American negotiators would meet European and NATO officials in Brussels this week, ahead of US-Ukraine-Russia talks in Abu Dhabi on November 10-11.
Wednesday’s meeting will involve representatives from Kyiv, the United States, France, Germany, Britain, NATO and the World Bank, EU spokeswoman Paula Pinho told reporters.
The meeting “will build on earlier talks that took place in Miami with Ukraine and with the US also at the time, in view of lasting, sustainable peace in Ukraine,” she said.
Pinho said the talks focused on “Ukraine’s post-war reconstruction and prosperity” would take place at the level of national security advisers on the European side, without specifying who would represent the United States.
