Brigitte Macron received Ukrainian first lady Olena Zelenska at the Elysee Palace on Monday, discussing aid for the reconstruction of hospitals in the war-torn country and fostering children in France.
Olena Zelenska spoke to the wife of French President Emmanuel Macron ahead of a dual conference in Paris on emergency aid to Ukraine in the dead of winter and the commitment of French companies to rebuilding the country.
“They gave an update on Operation Cigogne, which has allowed the reception of Ukrainian children suffering from cancer in France and on the 20,000 children who attend school in France” since the start of the Russian intervention on February 24, we said at the Brigitte’s entourage. Macron.
Regular exchanges between the two First Ladies
They will go on Tuesday to a school in the 3rd district of Paris that welcomes children from families who have fled the war, according to this source.
“They also discussed the foundation that Ms. Zelenska launched” to collect humanitarian aid and enable the reconstruction of hospitals in eastern Ukraine, it was said.
“The two First Ladies know each other well,” stressed an adviser to Brigitte Macron, recalling that President Volodymyr Zelensky had made one of his first foreign trips to France in June 2019 after his election and that the two women have seen each other. regularly. as.
They called each other at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, they exchanged in writing or by videoconference since February 24 and they met again in New York in September, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly.
Source: BFM TV
