WASHINGTON - Ukraine's first lady, Olena, met with Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday as she began a series of high-profile appearances in Washington that will include a session with U.S. counterpart Jill Biden.headed for her first announced event in the United States, the meeting with Blinken.of the United States' commitment to Ukraine. Blinken also commended her for her work with civilians dealing with trauma and other damage from the war.before photographers there.
During the war, Zelenskyy has won admiration from Ukrainians and Ukraine's supporters abroad by staying put in the capital, Kyiv, after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his attack on Ukraine i n February.largely disappeared with the couple's two children during the first months after the invasion. In an interview with Time magazine this month, she described the war forcing her to shelter away from Zelenskyy for security reasons from the first hours of Russia's bombing.
The two first ladies met then at a school, where they hugged, talked, and joined schoolchildren making tissue-paper bears as gifts for Mother's Day.has taken a higher public profile since that meeting. That includes giving more newspaper interviews about Ukraine's struggles and about her projects during the conflict. She has promoted counseling for the millions of Ukrainians now dealing with grief and trauma.
She meets with Jill Biden on Tuesday and will speak in the congressional auditorium at the Capitol to lawmakers on Wednesday. Her husband received standing ovations from congressional members in a video address to lawmakers in the same auditorium earlier in the war.Associated Press writer Hanna Arhirova contributed from Kyiv. Matthew Lee contributed from Washington.
Picking up some briefcases of cash 🤪🤪
Stupid war. This has to stop.
During a war…
Bringing a dozen eggs with me .
Beautiful lady. Slava to Ukraine !
Wait a minute!!!!! That's actually Volodymyr Zelenskyy!!!!
I don't know what to make of Ukraine war anymore the truth have not being told and maybe we will never know the truth code of conduct.
Run honey, run.
So high profile most did't even know she exhisted.
Spending some of her hubbys cut of the US 45 billion the weapons makers got.
She's got money to blow.
They have hose worth few millions $ in USA
The soldiers fighting on Ukraines front lines wish her a safe trip .
Treason?
'high-profile US SHOPPING trip'
Off to beg for money…
Soooo she fled Ukraine…
Ohhhh yeahhh, serious war happenjng when the leaders of the waring country has time to travel!!! ZelenskyyUa is just making sure the laundered funds are getting back to JoeBiden and he's getting his share.
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