WASHINGTON (Reuters) – First woman Jill Biden will visit Romania and Slovakia from May 5-9 to meet with U.S. service members and embassy personnel, displaced Ukrainian mother and father and youngsters, humanitarian help staff, and lecturers, her workplace stated on Monday
On Sunday, celebrated as Mother’s Day within the United States, Biden will meet with Ukrainian moms and youngsters who’ve been pressured to flee their properties due to Russia’s battle in opposition to 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 May 6, earlier than heading to Bucharest to meet with Romanian authorities officers, U.S. embassy employees, humanitarian help staff, and lecturers working with displaced Ukrainian youngsters.
The journey additionally contains stops within the Slovakian cities of Bratislava, Kosice and Vysne Nemecke, the place Biden will meet with authorities officers, refugees and help staff, her workplace stated.
Biden’s visit is the most recent present of assist for Ukraine and neighboring international locations which are serving to Ukrainian refugees by prime U.S. representatives.
U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi met Ukrainian President Vlodymyr Zelenskiy on Sunday during an unannounced visit to Kyiv.
Jill Biden has additionally been intently engaged. In March she and her Polish counterpart, Agata Kornhauser-Duda, labored collectively to pace 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 practically 5.5 million folks had fled Ukraine https://data2.unhcr.org/en/conditions/ukraine/location?secret=unhcrrestricted because the begin of the battle on Feb. 24 and the quantity may develop to 8.3 million this yr.
By April 27, greater than 3 million Ukrainians had fled to Poland, with Romania taking in round 817,300 and Slovakia absorbing practically 372,000, in accordance to U.N. knowledge.
(Reporting by Andrea Shalal; Editing by Bradley Perrett)
