Jill Biden makes secret Mother’s Day visit to Ukraine

Jill Biden visited the Ukraine in a surprise visit on Sunday where she met her Ukrainian counterpart Olena Zelenska and expressed American support for the embattled nation.

‘I wanted to come in Mother’s Day. I thought it was important to show the Ukrainian people that this war has to stop and this war has been brutal and that the people of the United States stand with the people of Ukraine,’ she said. 

Biden is the highest profile member of President Joe Biden’s administration to visit the war torn country.

The visit wasn’t announced due to security reasons. The first lady traveled by vehicle to the town of Uzhhorod, about a 10-minute drive from a Slovakian village that borders Ukraine. She spent about two hours in Ukraine.

Biden gave Zelenska, the wife of Ukrainian President Volodymyr…