BUCAREST, Romania, May 7 — US First Lady Jill Biden hailed the “amazingly strong” refugees from war-torn Ukraine as she visited neighbouring Romania today. “You are amazingly strong,” Biden said after listening to mothers and children recount how they fled Russia’s invasion of their...
BUCAREST, Romania, May 7 — US First Lady Jill Biden hailed the “amazingly strong” refugees from war-torn Ukraine as she visited neighbouring Romania today.
“We stand with you, I hope you know that,” she said in a visit to a school in Bucharest, accompanied by her Romanian counterpart Carmen Iohannis, according to images transmitted by TVR public television. Most have moved on to other countries, with an estimated 80,000 staying, half of them children, according to the World Vision foundation.
Yesterday she met with US service members in Romania and on Sunday, she is set to travel to Slovakia, where she will meet with refugees, aid workers and local residents in the city of Kosice and the village of Vysne Nemecke.
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