First Lady Jill Biden visited western Ukraine and was met by Ukrainian First Lady Olena Zelenskyy on Sunday.
“I wanted to come on Mother’s Day,” Biden told Zelenskyy when she arrived, according to reports. “I thought it was important to show the Ukrainian people that this war has to stop and this war has been brutal and that the people of the United States stand with the people of Ukraine.” She also said, “The people of the United States stand with the people of Ukraine.”
President Joe Biden did not travel with the first lady to the embattled country.
Jill Biden’s office told The Associated Press that she arrived by vehicle in the western city of Uzhhorod, located near the Slovak border. She then returned to Slovakia after her trip into Ukraine, her office told Reuters.
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