As Russia intensifies its brutal campaign in the eastern areas, US first lady Jill Biden made an unexpected visit to western Ukraine on Sunday, having a surprise Mother’s Day meeting with the country’s first lady, Olena Zelenskyy.
Biden entered Ukraine under a veil of secrecy, becoming the latest high-profile American to do so during the country’s 10-week confrontation with Russia.
Biden told Zelenskyy, “I wanted to come on Mother’s Day.” “I believed it was critical to demonstrate to the Ukrainian people that this war must end, that it has been horrible, and that the people of the United States stand with the people of Ukraine.”