Olena Zelenska published a post on Instagram about the arrival of US First Lady Jill Biden to Ukraine. On Mother’s Day, May 8, Biden visited Uzhgorod, where she met with Olena Zelenskaya and children and women who had to flee their homes because of the fighting.

“For a long time I wanted to personally say:“ Thank you for your support. ”And here is the US First Lady Jill Biden @flotus – in Ukraine, in Uzhgorod!
This is a great act on her part, because everyone who comes to Ukraine now cannot feel 100% safe. As does each of us. There is no safe place in Ukraine now. Literally the day before – terrible news: the Russians dropped an air bomb on a school in Belogorovka, Luhansk region. 60 people died… One of Jill’s first words was about them.

And yet Uzhgorod is our rear: it is here, in the largest hub of Transcarpathia, that thousands of migrants from Eastern Ukraine, mothers and children, found refuge,” the wife of the President of Ukraine wrote.

The first ladies visited migrants from Chernihiv, Kiev region, Krivoy Rog and other cities living in a local school.

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“In order to find safety and peace, they traveled for many hours. And before that, they survived for more than a month under daily Russian shelling …

Today they smiled with us, but you can imagine what is happening in their souls,” Elena added.

Zelenskaya also shared with Biden the details of a new project – a national psychological assistance program.

“Because every Ukrainian has now received a psychological trauma – in the occupation, in forced emigration, under shelling, losing loved ones. Crying and nervous every day. And our defenders get the same invisible trauma, in addition to physical wounds.

So, we would like to ask our American colleagues to share their experience. In the US, there is a powerful post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) recovery program. Jill agreed that it was important. Before her visit to Ukraine, she had already managed to communicate with Ukrainian women from Romania and Slovakia. And most often I heard from them the question why Putin wants to kill them.

Perhaps the whole world is not able to answer. But what we can do is encourage people to live on all the attempts on their life and prove to them how priceless they are,” Zelenskaya said.

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