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Jill Biden was president’s eyes, ears on trip to Ukraine

First lady Jill Biden presents her challenge coin to a member of the Delaware National Guard as she prepares to depart Mihail Kogalniceanu International Airport in Romania, Friday, May 6, 2022. Biden was visiting the Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base in Romania, to meet with U.S. and NATO military assigned to the base. Biden handed out her new challenge coin for the first time at the airport. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool)

First lady Jill Biden listens as Slovakia's Prime Minister Eduard Heger speaks as she walks from Vysne Nemecke, Slovakia, towards the border with Ukraine, red line, during a visit Sunday, May 8, 2022. Slovakia's Prime Minister Eduard Heger's wife Lucia Hegerova, left, and Robert Gucky, Slovakia's Director of the Border and Foreign Police Office, Presidium of the Police Force, second from right. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool)

First lady Jill Biden listens as she visits a tent operated by Slovak Catholic charities with food and other supplies for refugees during trip to Vysne Nemecke, Slovakia, near the border with Ukraine, Sunday, May 8, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool)

First Lady Jill Biden wears a large Ukrainian pin on her jacket as she walks toward her plane at Koscice International Airport in Kosice, Slovakia, Sunday, May 8, 2022. Biden spent part of her day visiting with Olena Zelenska, spouse of Ukrainian's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in Ukraine. An aide said she received the pin from the head of Mrs. Zelenska's security detail after she gave him one of her challenge coins. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool)

First lady Jill Biden, left, gives bottles of ketchup to Major Shawn Bradberry, U.S. Army Deputy Host Nation Advisor for Romania, right, during her visit to the Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base in Romania, Friday, May 6, 2022. The base was out of ketchup. Biden also served meals to and visit with some of the U.S. troops assigned to the base during her visit. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, Pool)

Jill Biden was president’s eyes, ears on trip to Ukraine