Melania Trump will bring Russian and Ukrainian representatives to the White House this week

First lady Melania Trump will bring representatives from Russia and Ukraine to the White House on Thursday, after announcing a ceasefire in the town of Oleshky last month.

“First Lady Melania Trump will personally convene representatives of Russia and Ukraine, two nations actively at war, at the White House,” the first lady’s office said Tuesday, calling the limited ceasefire “an unprecedented diplomatic move by an American First Lady.”

Trump, who will also deliver a speech on the limited ceasefire, has remained much more discreet during her husband’s second term. But even as she eschewed some of the more traditional roles of her job, she engaged behind the scenes in more substantive political work.

Trump announced on October 23 that she had secured a localized ceasefire to facilitate the humane evacuation of Oleshky’s elderly residents. The limited ceasefire began on October 27 and ended on Sunday. Hundreds of people were evacuated from Oleshky and returned to Ukraine, including a man who had not seen his wife for 1,711 days.

The humanitarian situation has become so dire in Oleshky that some residents have been forced to eat grass and weeds without access to medicine, clean water or electricity, Andrii Sybiha, Ukraine’s foreign minister, said last month.

Trump’s office said she was working directly with Ukrainian and Russian leaders as an “exclusive intermediary” through channels she had previously established as she worked to reunite children separated from their families during the war.

“The mission was a success, providing critical assistance to the region and enabling the evacuation of nearly 800 people,” Trump posted on X, adding that she hoped Oleshky would “serve as a foundation for lasting peace between the two nations.”

The first lady’s office said last month that Oleshky’s situation was brought to its attention during a private discussion at the 81st United Nations General Assembly in New York.

CNN previously reported that Pope Leo discussed the humanitarian crisis in Oleshky in a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier in October while he was in the hospital recovering from lung cancer surgery, according to the Vatican. The Kremlin said Putin “supported” the Vatican’s intention to help improve conditions.