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MIHAIL KOGALNICEANU AIR BASE, Romania (AP) \u2014 Delivering good cheer \u2014 and 5 gallons of ketchup \u2014 Jill Biden thanked U.S. troops deployed to Romania as a check against Russian aggression for their service, as she began a four-day trip to Europe to see first hand the refugee crisis caused by Moscow\u2019s invasion of Ukraine<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After flying overnight from Washington, the first lady arrived at Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base in Romania, near the Black Sea, in time to help serve Friday dinner to U.S. service members . About 1,600 of the several thousand U.S. troops President Joe Biden deployed to eastern Europe in the leadup to the Russia-Ukraine war were sent to the base, which is about 60 miles (100 kilometers) from Romania\u2019s border with Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jill Biden served mac and cheese and baked potatoes \u2014 and encouraged troops not to skip out on the greens \u2014 before greeting small groups of servicemembers at tables in the base dining facility. She also delivered bottles of ketchup, responding to a shortage of the condiment on the base, eliciting cheers from the troops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI know it\u2019s hard on your families,\u201d she told one servicemember, referencing her own experience when her son Beau Biden deployed to Iraq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Later, in a small room at the same base, Biden was videotaped reading the children\u2019s book \u201cNight Catch\u201d aloud with Staff Sgt. Sharon Rogers, originally from Kenya, in a virtual story time session for Rogers\u2019 son, Nathan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThank you for your service because when your mom serves, you serve too,\u201d Biden said in a comment directed at Nathan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first lady also posed for photos with troops from the Delaware Army National Guard before flying to Bucharest, Romania\u2019s capital, to continue the trip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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First lady Jill Biden and Staff Sergeant Sharon Rogers were videotaped reading “Night Catch” for Rogers’ son, Nathan, during a visit to the Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base in Romania, Friday, May 6, 2022. (AP Photo\/Susan Walsh, Pool)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

For weeks, the first lady has been transfixed by the news coming out of Ukraine, by the bombings and scenes of \u201cparents weeping over their children\u2019s broken bodies in the streets,\u201d as she said in a recent speech. She\u2019s now using her second solo overseas trip to get an up-close look at the Ukrainian refugee crisis by visiting Romania and Slovakia, where Biden will spend Mother\u2019s Day meeting with displaced families<\/a> in a small village on the border with Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s so important to the president and to me that the Ukrainian people know that we stand with them,\u201d Jill Biden told reporters traveling with her Thursday night, She said earlier in the week she wants the refugees to know \u201ctheir resilience inspires me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

NATO allies Romania and Slovakia border Ukraine and have taken in some of the millions of mostly women and children who fled<\/a> after Russia invaded Ukraine<\/a> in late February, triggering Europe\u2019s largest refugee crisis<\/a> since World War II.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biden is using four days in Europe to highlight issues she promotes at home, including support for U.S. service members, education and the welfare of children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The centerpiece of the first lady\u2019s trip comes Sunday \u2014 Mother\u2019s Day \u2014 when the mother of three meets with displaced Ukrainians who sought refuge across the border in Slovakia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biden\u2019s daughter, Ashley Biden, had planned to accompany her mother to Europe, but backed out after learning Thursday that she was a close contact of someone who tested positive for COVID-19, said Michael LaRosa, the first lady\u2019s spokesperson. Ashley Biden tested negative, LaRosa said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI know that we might not share a language, but I hope that I can convey, in ways so much greater than words, that their resilience inspires me, that they are not forgotten, and that all Americans stand with them still,\u201d Biden said earlier this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first lady also will meet during the trip with humanitarian aid workers, educators, government officials and U.S. embassy personnel, the White House said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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First lady Jill Biden meets U.S. troops during a visit to the Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base in Romania, Friday, May 6, 2022. (AP Photo\/Susan Walsh, Pool)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Nearly 6 million Ukrainians, mostly women and children, have fled their country since Russia\u2019s invasion, according to the U.N. refugee agency. Many have resettled in next-door countries, like Romania and Slovakia, or have gone elsewhere in Europe to try to rebuild their lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More than 850,000 Ukrainians have entered Romania since the invasion, while nearly 400,000 have crossed into Slovakia, according to government figures from those countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biden has long displayed an interest in the plight of refugees around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2011, when her husband was vice president, she traveled to drought-stricken east Africa to visit with Somali famine refugees<\/a> at the Dadaab camp in Kenya. In 2017, she visited refugees in Chios, Greece<\/a>, as part of work by the aid organization Save The Children, on whose board she served.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some refugee advocates said Biden\u2019s trip will send the message that the United States takes seriously its humanitarian commitment to the Ukrainian people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEvery first lady has a far-reaching platform to raise awareness and this trip will be an important tool for mobilizing additional support for those forced to flee their homeland,\u201d said Krish O\u2019Mara Vignarajah, president and CEO of Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service and formerly a policy director to first lady Michelle Obama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Ukrainian sapper searches for unexploded explosives at the remains of the Antonov An-225, the world’s biggest cargo aircraft destroyed during recent fighting between Russian and Ukrainian forces, at the Antonov airport in Hostomel, on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, Thursday, May 5, 2022. (AP Photo\/Efrem Lukatsky)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Biden\u2019s trip follows other U.S. government representatives visiting Kyiv, Ukraine\u2019s capital, including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi<\/a>, Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin<\/a> and Secretary of State Antony Blinken to meet with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

President Biden visited Ukrainian refugees during a stop in Poland in March. That\u2019s the closest he\u2019s been to Ukraine and the White House says there are no plans for him to visit Kyiv.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Saturday in Bucharest, Biden was planning to be briefed on humanitarian efforts, meet with Romanian first lady Carmen Iohannis and tour a school where Ukrainian refugee students are enrolled before departing for Slovakia. The first lady is a community college English professor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The following day in Kosice, Slovakia, Biden will visit a city-operated refugee center and a public school that also hosts Ukrainian refugee students, where she\u2019ll participate in Mother\u2019s Day events with Ukrainian and Slovakian mothers and children. She\u2019ll also travel to the Slovakia-Ukraine border crossing in Vysne Nemecke, Slovakia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The White House declined to comment on whether she will cross the border and enter Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monday brings a meeting with Slovakian President Zuzana Caputova, the country\u2019s first female president, before Biden heads back to Washington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first lady has shown her support the Ukrainian people in several ways. She wore a sunflower \u2014 Ukraine\u2019s national flower \u2014 on her mask and a dress sleeve and traveled to a Tennessee hospital to visit with Ukrainian children flown there for cancer treatment<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She also had Ukraine\u2019s ambassador to the U.S., Oksana Markarova<\/a>, sit with her during President Biden\u2019s State of the Union address in March.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The first lady\u2019s first solo overseas trip took her to Tokyo last year<\/a> to represent the United States at the opening of the Olympic Games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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