{"id":1468081,"date":"2022-05-08T11:44:36","date_gmt":"2022-05-08T15:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1468081"},"modified":"2022-05-08T11:44:52","modified_gmt":"2022-05-08T15:44:52","slug":"jill-biden-makes-surprise-trip-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jill-biden-makes-surprise-trip-to-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"Jill Biden Makes Surprise Trip To Ukraine"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjill-biden-makes-surprise-trip-to-ukraine%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1468081&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>First lady Jill Biden made an unannounced trip to Ukraine on Sunday, visiting Ukrainian first lady Olena Zelenska in Uzhhorod, a city in the southwest of the country.<\/p>\n<p>Biden and Zelenska greeted each other in front of a former school now housing Ukrainian refugees fleeing Russia\u2019s invasion, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/05\/08\/politics\/jill-biden-ukraine-visit\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CNN<\/a>. Zelenska has not made a public appearance since the start of the war Feb. 24.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to come on Mother\u2019s Day,\u201d Biden said, according to the outlet. \u201cWe thought it was important to show the Ukrainian people this war has to stop. And this war has been brutal \u2026 The people of the United States stand with the people of Ukraine.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The moment First Ladies Jill Biden \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 and Olena Zelenska \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\udde6met today in Uzhhorod, Ukraine <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9UsdBBA6Eh\">pic.twitter.com\/9UsdBBA6Eh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Michael LaRosa (@MichaelLaRosa46) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MichaelLaRosa46\/status\/1523293046183383041?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 8, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Biden\u2019s Mother\u2019s Day stop in Ukraine is part of her larger Eastern European trip to Romania and Slovakia where she met with U.S. officials, government members and Ukrainian refugees. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/02\/jill-biden-travel-slovakia-romania-solo-trip-ukraine-war\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>(RELATED: <span class=\"il\">Jill<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"il\">Biden<\/span> Set To Travel To Eastern Europe In Solo Trip To Visit Ukrainian Refugees)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>She was originally slated to meet Sunday with \u201chumanitarian aid workers, and local Slovakians who are supporting families who have sought refuge in Slovakia during this crisis.\u201d She was also set to meet with \u201cUkrainian mothers and children who have been forced to flee their home country because of Putin\u2019s war,\u201d according to a statement from her office.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7425096\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7425096\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">US First lady Jill Biden (L) and Ukraine President wife Olena Zelenska (CR) visit the School 6, a public school that has taken in displaced students in Uzhhorod on May 8, 2022, during an unannounced visit of Jill Biden to Ukraine on the sidelines of an official trip in nearby Slovakia. (Photo by Susan Walsh \/ POOL \/ AFP) (Photo by SUSAN WALSH\/POOL\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Several <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/15\/two-gop-lawmakers-steve-daines-victoria-spartz-ukraine-war-zone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">U.S. officials<\/a>, including Republican Montana Sen. Steve Daines, Republican Indiana Rep. Victoria Spartz and Speaker of the House <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/01\/house-democrats-visit-ukraine-secret\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nancy\u00a0<\/a><span class=\"il\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/01\/house-democrats-visit-ukraine-secret\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pelosi<\/a>, have also gone to Ukraine to visit the country at war with Russia.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden has not made any public plans to visit Ukraine, with White House press secretary Jen Psaki <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/15\/fast-car-biden-ready-ukraine-wont-psaki\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">saying<\/a> \u201cYou\u2019re welcome, America. We need him to do a lot of things,\u201d as a reason to why he is not going.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First lady Jill Biden made an unannounced trip to Ukraine on Sunday, visiting Ukrainian first lady Olena Zelenska in Uzhhorod, a city in the southwest of the country.Biden and Zelenska<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":488,"featured_media":1482032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1468081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/488"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1468081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1468081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1482032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1468081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1468081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1468081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}