Jill Biden embarks on a trip to Eastern Europe to visit Ukrainian refugees.

Jill Biden, the first lady, is leaving late Thursday for Eastern Europe, where she will visit with Ukrainian refugees, displaced by the Russian invasion, and tour the Slovakian border with Ukraine, according to her office.

The first scheduled stop is on Friday in Romania, where she will meet with U.S. troops as part of her initiative to support military families, called Joining Forces. On Saturday, she will meet with Romania’s first lady, Carmen Iohannis, to express support for the country’s government, which has taken in some 850,000 of the more than five million Ukrainian refugees logged since the Russian invasion began in February, according to figures shared by the United Nations Refugee Agency.

Her planned visit on Sunday to a border crossing in Vysne Nemecke, Slovakia, near Ukraine’s western border, will make her the latest high-profile Biden administration official to come close to the conflict zone. Read more

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