Jill Biden makes surprise visit to western Ukraine

First lady Jill Biden meets Ukraine's first lady, Olena Zelenska.
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First lady Jill Biden traveled to Ukraine on Sunday, spending two hours at a school near the Slovakian border that is now housing displaced families.

Biden met with Ukraine's first lady, Olena Zelenska, and told reporters she thought it was important to come on Mother's Day 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."

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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.