Ukraine’s First Lady Olena Zelenska has visited a children’s ward in a hospital in Copenhagen today.
Olena, 45, dressed in a smart green trouser suit, travelled to Rigshospitalet, a highly specialised hospital in Denmark, during her visit to the country.
The First Lady was all smiles as she spoke to the head nurse in the Department for Children and Young People with Surgical Diseases, Trine Spiegelhauer.
She also chatted to the Danish Minister of Health Sophie Loehde and Rigshospitalet’s director, Rasmus Moegelvang.
The hospital’s history goes back 250 years to Denmark’s first real hospital, ‘Det kongelige Frederiks Hospital’, which was established to treat and care impoverished patients free of charge in Copenhagen.
Ukrainian First Lady Olena Zelenska looked smart for the occasion, sporting a button down shirt blazer which matched her tailored trousers
Olena looked smart for the occasion, sporting a button down shirt blazer which matched her tailored trousers.
She opted for a belt to cinch in her waist, along with a pair of pointed kitten heels and some gold hoops.
In her war-torn country, the Olena Zelenska foundation says it is currently rebuilding a hospital in Izium.
Around 140,000 patients were left without medical care due to the hospital’s destruction by Russian missiles, which destroyed key areas such as four operating theatres and an intensive care unit.
In a Telegram post, the First Lady of Ukraine wrote about how Russia has destroyed more than 1,500 Ukrainian hospitals in more than a year-and-a-half.
Olena and her husband President Volodymyr Zelensky are in Denmark on a two-day visit, having previously met Sweden’s King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia before joining Crown Princess Mary.
According to Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, since the outbreak of the war, the country has sent approximately 1.5 billion euros in military support to Ukraine and an estimated 336 million euros in civilian contributions.
Mr Zelensky’s visit to Denmark was revealed by the Danish Prime Minister’s office on Sunday after announcing a decision to supply F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine.
The First Lady of Ukraine, 45, travelled to the Rigshospitalet National Hospital during her visit to Denmark
Olena beamed as she spoke to the head nurse in the Department for Children and Young People with Surgical Diseases, Trine Spiegelhauer (L)
Ukrainian First Lady Olena Zelenska during a visit to the children’s ward at the Rigshospitalet National Hospital in Copenhagen
She also chatted to the Danish Minister of Health Sophie Loehde and Rigshospitalet’s director, Rasmus Moegelvang
In a Telegram post, the First Lady of Ukraine wrote about how Russia has destroyed more than 1,500 Ukrainian hospitals in more than a year-and-a-half. Pictured: Olena listening at the hospital
The hospital Olena visited goes back 250 years to Denmark’s first real hospital, ‘Det kongelige Frederiks Hospital’, which was established to treat and care impoverished patients free of charge in Copenhagen
Zelensky had hailed the agreement – made by both the Netherlands and Denmark to deliver the aircrafts – as historic, CNN reports. ‘I am very grateful,’ he added.
Over the weekend, the leader of the war-torn country was in Sweden, and also met up with King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia – on the same day as a missile attack in Chernihiv killed seven people and wounded scores of others.
It was his first visit to the country since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Mr Zelensky condemned the missile attack, which he said hit buildings including a theatre and a university.
‘This is what a neighbourhood with a terrorist state is, this is what we unite the whole world against. A Russian missile hit right in the centre of the city, in our Chernihiv,’ he wrote on Telegram.
‘A square, the polytechnic university, a theatre. An ordinary Saturday, which Russia turned into a day of pain and loss.’
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