The wife of the Ukrainian president spoke on Monday July 18 with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, before a meeting with the first lady of the United States, Jill Biden. She is also scheduled to deliver a speech tomorrow in the auditorium of the US Congress. After being very discreet at the start of the Russian invasion, Olena Zelenska is increasingly present on the public scene.
Exfiltrated with her two children at the start of the Russian military operation in Ukraine, Olena Zelenska came out of retirement on May 8 to receive her American counterpart Jill Biden, visiting kyiv.
The two first ladies went to a school. Since then, the wife of Volodymyr Zelensky has multiplied the interventions, mainly by videoconference, to bring light to the fate of children in the war, or its humanitarian and psychological consequences.
She has also given numerous interviews to the international media and made the front page of several newspapers in the United States, France, Germany and Spain. This time, she traveled to Washington in person for a series of talks with senior officials.
⚡️ Ukraine’s first lady visits DC.
First Lady Olena Zelenska has arrived in Washington at the invitation of the US First Lady Jill Biden.
Zelenska began her visit with a meeting with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on July 18.
?Olena Zelenska via Facebook. pic.twitter.com/EygRcp7wK7
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) July 18, 2022
Olena Zelenska is not an official representative of the Ukrainian government, but she tries to advance the causes that are dear to her. In a khaki green dress, the color her husband has worn since the launch of the Russian invasion, Olena Zelenska met the head of American diplomacy to discuss the ” humanitarian cost of Vladimir Putin’s war “, in the words of Antony Blinken.
Tomorrow, she will address the elected members of Congress, who gave the Ukrainian president a standing ovation during his speech by videoconference in March. The week will end for Olena Zelenska with an online summit of wives and husbands of heads of state on the reconstruction of Ukraine.
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