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Meeting between First Ladies: the moving photo of Jill Biden hugging Olena Zelenska

2022-05-09T14:42:31.358Z


The two women met in Uzhhorod, a city in western Ukraine, on Sunday May 8. Joe Biden's wife had brought a bouquet of flowers as a sign of support.


A symbolic embrace.

On Sunday May 8, Jill Biden went to Ouzhhorod, in western Ukraine, to a school transformed into a reception center for refugees.

On site, the First Lady of the United States met her Ukrainian counterpart, Olena Zelenska.

During this exchange, the wife of Joe Biden hugged that of President Volodymyr Zelensky, before offering him a bouquet of flowers as a sign of support.

"I wanted to come for Mother's Day," she said.

I think it was important to show the Ukrainian people that this war must stop”.

During this meeting, the two women discussed for almost an hour before going to meet the refugee children.

This is the first time that Jill Biden has appeared in public since the start of the war between Ukraine and the troops of Vladimir Putin.

In video, a Ukrainian girl who sings

Liberated, delivered

Letters exchanged

According to AFP, the two women would have exchanged letters before this visit.

“First of all, I would like to thank you for this very courageous act”, had begun Olena Zelenska, specifies the agency without giving the precise dates of the missives.

And to add: "Because that's what it takes for the First Lady of the United States to come here, during a war where military operations take place every day, where the air alert sirens sound, even today".

The day before, Jill Biden had traveled to Romania to visit a school in Bucharest, welcoming nearly fifty Ukrainian children.

Mothers and teachers who had fled the war with their families were present.

“You are extremely strong (...) We support you.

I hope you know it, ”said, moved, the wife of Joe Biden.

Source: lefigaro

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