U.S. First Lady Jill Biden is using her second solo overseas trip to get an up-close look at the Ukrainian refugee crisis by visiting Romania and Slovakia, where she will spend Mother’s Day meeting with displaced families in a small Slovakian village on the border with Ukraine.
On the ground in Romania and heading to serve a meal to our U.S. troops stationed here at Milhail Kogălniceanu Air Base. pic.twitter.com/vRuuPcgiqe
— Jill Biden (@FLOTUS) May 6, 2022
After flying from Washington, Jill Biden arrived at Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base in Romania. U.S. First lady Jill Biden met with U.S. service personnel at Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base in Romania on Friday, the first stop on a four-day visit to Eastern Europe.
The first lady served food and cake to U.S. troops at the base and delivered some bottles of ketchup, which was met with applause.
Food is love. 💕 pic.twitter.com/1yjBQL4wbH
— Jill Biden (@FLOTUS) May 6, 2022
Some of the several thousand U.S. troops who President Joe Biden deployed to Eastern Europe in the leadup to the war were sent to the base, which is about 60 miles from Romania’s border with Ukraine.
Jill Biden told reporters, “It’s so important to the president and to me that the Ukrainian people know that we stand with them.”
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