Zelenska arrived at 1.30pm. Jill Biden immediately hugged her. The group, which also included the Ukrainian ambassador to the US Oksana Markarova, posed for a souvenir photo. Nobody answered the reporters’ questions. A private meeting between the two first ladies followed, joined by the American ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the deputy administrator of the Federal Development Agency, Isobel Coleman, the Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs Victoria Nulandthe chief operating officer of American health care Vivek Murthy e il Second gentleman Douglas Emhoffrepresenting his wife, the vice president Kamala HarrisThe presence of two senior leaders from Health and Development reaffirmed the sense of Zelenska’s mission: the Ukrainian president’s wife arrived in the United States to solicit more aid and on all fields.
Kiev, the meeting between Jill Biden and the Ukrainian first lady Olena Zelenska
Pennsylvania Avenue presidential street was lined with yellow and blue flags, the colors of Ukraine, but the first lady’s American mission is going beyond ceremonial. On the table there are concrete things such as the food emergency of the Ukrainian people, the problem of drinking water, the absence of drugs. The secretary of state condemned “strongly the brutal attack of Russia”, and promised that the United States will lead the reconstruction of Ukraine once the war is over. Two months ago, Congress approved a $ 40 billion aid package.
During his visit to the museum of the victims of communism, Zelenska compared the Russian invasion to the time of Stalin’s terror. “In certain places – she said – the darkness never dissolves. Today we are not fighting only for our freedom, we are fighting so that Stalin’s terror does not repeat itself anywhere, in the civilized world“. The reference is to the Stalinist policies that led to a mass famine in Ukraine in the 1930s, with four million deaths. Now there is a new food, health and psychological emergency. For this Zelenska, in the course of her visits, he also met Samantha Powerhead of the federal agency for international development, which has so far guaranteed billions of dollars in aid to the government of Kiev.