Jill Biden to meet with Ukrainian refugees during visit to Romania and Slovakia
By Andrea Shalal
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – First girl Jill Biden will go to Romania and Slovakia from Could 5-9 to satisfy with U.S. service members and embassy personnel, displaced Ukrainian mother and father and kids, humanitarian support staff, and academics, her workplace stated on Monday
On Sunday, celebrated as Mom’s Day in the US, Biden will meet with Ukrainian moms and kids who’ve been compelled to flee their properties due to Russia’s struggle towards Ukraine, her workplace stated.
The spouse of President Joe Biden will meet with U.S. navy service members at Mihail Kogalniceau Airbase in Romania on Could 6, earlier than heading to Bucharest to satisfy with Romanian authorities officers, U.S. embassy workers, humanitarian support staff, and academics working with displaced Ukrainian youngsters.
The journey additionally consists of stops within the Slovakian cities of Bratislava, Kosice and Vysne Nemecke, the place Biden will meet with authorities officers, refugees and support staff, her workplace stated.
Biden’s go to is the most recent present of help for Ukraine and neighboring international locations which can be serving to Ukrainian refugees by prime U.S. representatives.
U.S. Home of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi met Ukrainian President Vlodymyr Zelenskiy on Sunday throughout an unannounced go to to Kyiv.
Jill Biden has additionally been carefully engaged. In March she and her Polish counterpart, Agata Kornhauser-Duda, labored collectively to hurry medical help to the frontlines of the refugee disaster sparked by Russia’s invasion.
Russia describes its actions as a “particular navy operation.”
The U.N. refugee company final week stated almost 5.5 million folks had fled Ukraine https://data2.unhcr.org/en/conditions/ukraine/location?secret=unhcrrestricted because the begin of the struggle on Feb. 24 and the quantity may develop to eight.3 million this 12 months.
By April 27, greater than 3 million Ukrainians had fled to Poland, with Romania taking in round 817,300 and Slovakia absorbing almost 372,000, in line with U.N. knowledge.
(Reporting by Andrea Shalal; Modifying by Bradley Perrett)
