Prva dama SAD-a ukrajinskim izbjeglicama poručila: “Mi vam čuvamo leđa”

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epa09664292 (21/24) (FILE) - US President-elect Joe Biden (L) stands with Dr. Jill Biden (C) as he is given the oath of office by Chief Justice John Roberts of the Supreme Court during the inaugural ceremony for President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC, USA, 20 January 2021 (reissued 03 January 2021). Following the November 2020 US presidential election, a tone set by supporters of defeated US President Donald Trump escalated further. Trump, who was refusing to concede the victory of Joe Biden, claiming voter fraud and rigged elections, told supporters and white nationalist extreme-right group Proud Boys to respectively 'Stop the Steal' and to 'stand back and stand by'. His social media accounts were suspended and the alt-right platform Parler gained in user numbers. 
 
On 06 January 2021, incumbent US vice president Pence was due to certify the Electoral College votes before Congress, the last step in the process before President-elect Biden was to be sworn in. In the morning, pro-Trump protesters had gathered for the so-called Save America March. Soon after Trump finished his speech at the Ellipse, the crowd marched to the Capitol. The attack had begun. 
 
Rioters broke into the Capitol building where the joint Congress session was being held. Lawmakers barricaded themselves inside the chambers and donned tear gas masks while rioters vandalized the building, some even occupying offices such as House Speaker Pelosi's. Eventually in the evening the building was cleared from insurrectionists, and the Congress chambers reconvened their session, confirming Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 US presidential election. 

In the aftermath, more than 600 people were charged with federal crimes in connection to the insurgency, and close Trump aides such as Steve Bannon, Mark Meadows and Roger Stone were subpoenaed by the House select committee investigating the attack. Trump himself was acquitt

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Prva dama Sjedinjenih Država, Jill Biden, koja tijekom boravka u Europi želi iskazati potporu Ukrajini i zemljama koje joj pomažu, u subotu se u Bukureštu sastala s članovima obitelji izbjeglica koje su pobjegle pred ruskom invazijom.

U pratnji Carmen Iohannis, supruge rumunjskog predsjednika, Jill Biden je posjetila školu koju pohađa i pedesetak ukrajinskih učenika. Razgovarala je s nekoliko djece, a zatim je saslušala svjedočanstva učitelja i majki koje su joj ispričale kakvim su mukama bile izložene u Ukrajini. Govorile su joj i o zajedničkim nastojanjima da se u Bukureštu organizira nastava za djecu izbjeglice.

“Iznimno ste snažni”, rekla je gospođa Biden u razgovoru sa svojim sugovornicima. “A mi vam čuvamo leđa, nadamo se da to znate”, dodala je.

Rumunjska, koja graniči s Ukrajinom, dosad je primila više od 860.000 izbjeglica. Ondje ih je još uvijek oko 80.000. Po podacima zaklade World Vision polovicu ili 40.000 čine djeca, od kojih je samo 5 posto njih uključeno u rumunjski obrazovni sustav.

Jutros je Jill Biden kratko razgovarala s predsjednikom Klausom Iohannisom, a potom je prisustvovala sastanku članova UN-ovih agencija i nevladinih organizacija, posvećenom humanitarnoj pomoći izbjeglicama.

Prvoga dana posjeta Rumunjskoj, u petak, američka prva dama posjetila je američke vojnike raspoređene u zračnoj bazi Mihail Kogalniceanu u istočnoj Rumunjskoj.

U večernjim satima predviđen je njezin odlazak iz Bukurešta za Slovačku, gdje će u nedjelju posjetiti gradić Košice i selo Vysne Nemecke. Ondje će se susresti s izbjeglicama, humanitarnim radnicima i Slovacima koji im pomažu.

Od početka ruske invazije 24. veljače, vlada Joea Bidena osigurala je oko 3,8 milijardi dolara vojne pomoći Kijevu.

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