𝐙𝐄𝐋𝐄𝐍𝐒𝐊𝐘 𝐀𝐖𝐀𝐑𝐃𝐒 𝐌𝐄𝐋𝐀𝐍𝐈𝐀 𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐌𝐏 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐎𝐑𝐃𝐄𝐑 𝐎𝐅 𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐍𝐂𝐄𝐒𝐒 𝐎𝐋𝐆𝐀 𝐅𝐎𝐑 𝐒𝐀𝐕𝐈𝐍𝐆 𝐎𝐋𝐄𝐒𝐇𝐊𝐘 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a decree on November 2 awarding First Lady Melania Trump the Order of Princess Olga, First Class — one of Ukraine's highest honors for women, reserved for exceptional contributions in science, education, culture and charitable work. The decree credited her with a “𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘪𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘣𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯” to humanitarian support for Ukraine, including efforts to help children who were deported or forcibly moved out of Russian-occupied territory. The honor comes after Mrs. Trump personally helped broker a six-day ceasefire that evacuated civilians from Oleshky, a Russian-occupied town in the Kherson region that was on the brink of collapse. It was 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐥𝐨𝐜𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐟𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐑𝐮𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐚'𝐬 𝐟𝐮𝐥𝐥-𝐬𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐛𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐧 𝐢𝐧 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟐, and it let nearly 800 people escape a city where food, water and medicine had run out. “𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘖𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘩𝘬𝘺 𝘪𝘴 𝘥𝘪𝘳𝘦. 𝘖𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘩𝘬𝘺 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘵-𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘳 𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘰𝘧 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳,” she said, describing a population of mostly elderly residents “𝘸𝘩𝘰 𝘶𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘺 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘦, 𝘧𝘰𝘰𝘥, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘤𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘯 𝘸𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘳.” President Trump backed her up directly to reporters: “𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘰 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘯. 𝘈𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵'𝘴 𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘧𝘰𝘤𝘶𝘴. 𝘉𝘰𝘵𝘩 𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘤𝘰𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘩𝘦𝘳, 𝘴𝘰 𝘴𝘩𝘦'𝘴 𝘥𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘨𝘰𝘰𝘥 𝘫𝘰𝘣.” Russia didn't exactly return the good faith. Kyiv's General Staff said Moscow's forces used the humanitarian window to 𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐨𝐩𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐢𝐫 𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐛𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐝 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬, drawing only a shrug from Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, who called repositioning during a ceasefire “𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘱𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦.” Even so, the evacuation held, and Ukraine's own human rights ombudsman is already asking the First Lady to run the same playbook in other occupied towns. While cable news obsessed over Tuesday's midterm fallout, 𝐌𝐫𝐬. 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐩𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞'𝐬 𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐧𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐲 to keep working the phones on her own peace mission. Ukraine just decided that mattered enough to pin a medal on her for it. 𝐔𝐤𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞'𝐬 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐇𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐖𝐚𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐫 𝐝𝐨𝐰𝐧.