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Ukraine’s first lady Olena Zelenska on Tuesday (June 11) visited injured Ukrainian soldiers undergoing treatment at Berlin’s German army hospital where she spoke to several of them and was briefed by doctors.One soldier who had suffered a leg injury asked Zelenska to sign a photograph he took out of what appeared to be a diary.Zelenska kneeled down next to the soldier’s hospital bed and signed the back of the photo on her lap.She then presented a leg-amputated soldier with a watch as Ukraine’s Health Minister Viktor Liashko, a trained physician, looked on.The soldiers’ treatment is part of the EU’s so called Union Civil Protection Mechanism (UCPM), established in 2001 to “strengthen the cooperation and coordination between the European Union and the Member States in the field of civil protection.”Germany has treated more than 1,050 injured and sick via the UCPM, according to Berlin’s health ministry, “by far the largest number” on a European scale while “other EU countries of comparable size, such as France have only accepted a tenth compared to Germany.”Zelenska was in Berlin with her husband, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy who attended the Ukraine Recovery Conference hosted by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz.

Ukraine’s first lady Olena Zelenska on Tuesday (June 11) visited injured Ukrainian soldiers undergoing treatment at Berlin’s German army hospital where she spoke to several of them and was briefed by doctors.

Ukraine’s first lady Olena Zelenska on Tuesday (June 11) visited injured Ukrainian soldiers undergoing treatment at Berlin’s German army hospital where she spoke to several of them and was briefed by doctors.

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Ukraine’s first lady visits injured soldiers at German army hospital

Ukraine’s first lady visits injured soldiers at German army hospital

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