President Donald Trump personally handed Russian President Vladimir Putin a letter from First Lady Melania Trump during their 15 August summit at a U.S. military base in Anchorage, Alaska, two White House officials told Reuters. The handwritten note raised concerns about the abductions of Ukrainian children taken to Russia or Russian-occupied territory since the 2022 invasion. The officials declined to disclose the full contents of the letter but said it appealed for action on behalf of the missing children. Melania Trump, who was not present at the meeting, wrote the message as a private initiative. Her intervention spotlights an issue that led the International Criminal Court to issue an arrest warrant for Putin in 2023 on charges of unlawful deportation and transfer of minors. Ukraine estimates that tens of thousands of children have been moved across the border, calling the practice a war crime. Moscow maintains it is evacuating vulnerable youths from a conflict zone. Trump and Putin spoke for nearly three hours but announced no cease-fire or other breakthrough on the broader conflict.