Crosswire — November 06, 2026
Daily Briefing: 6 November 2026
GEOPOLITICS
Melania Trump Hosts Russian and Ukrainian Delegations on the Oleshky Ceasefire
What happened:
The First Lady hosted Russian and Ukrainian representatives at the White House, and the meeting was streamed publicly. The subject was a humanitarian operation and local ceasefire in Oleshky (Aleshki), a Russian-occupied town in the Kherson region. This is the same local Kherson ceasefire whose expiry coincided with the alert-app hacks earlier this week.
Melania Trump said she was involved in "every stage" of planning the operation.
Russian delegation: Yana…
The skinny
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