Jill Biden, the first lady, met with Ukrainian refugees in Bucharest, Romania, on Saturday, listening to harrowing stories from women who fled Russian bombs and visiting with children as young as five who told her that their only wish was to return home.
Dr. Biden visited the Scoala Gimnaziala Uruguay school, which has taken in Ukrainian students. She and Carmen Iohannis — the Romanian first lady and a fellow teacher — spoke to children who were practicing lesson plans in English. They also heard from educators, some of them refugees themselves. taken.
“I crossed the border with my 3-year-old son and everything I was thinking about was how to save my child from a city that was bombed,” Anastasia Konovalova, a Ukrainian refugee teaching at the school, told the first lady. “Thank God the Romanian people were here.”
“We stand with you,” Dr. Biden said. “I hope you know that.” Read more
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