Pentagon: First Lady's visit to Ukraine was not safe

President Joe Biden's recent visit to Ukraine was not safe, the Pentagon revealed.

The director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, Lt. General Scott Perrier, said on Tuesday that the trip of First Lady Jill Biden and other senior U.S. officials who visited Ukraine in recent weeks could not guarantee their full safety during their trips.

Scott Perrier added during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing when asked if Jill Biden and other senior U.S. officials were completely safe during their visits to Ukraine: "I'm not going to say no. But I don't think we can guarantee anything 100 percent. "

"I will say that through appropriate planning and coordination it is possible", he continued, expressing doubts about the possibility of ensuring full security in this case.

Jill Biden made an unannounced visit to the western Ukrainian city of Ozhorod on Sunday, visiting a public school used as a temporary shelter.

She also met her Ukrainian counterpart Olena Zelenska, who appeared in public for the first time since the start of Russia's special operation in Ukraine.

America's first lady arrives in Ukraine for a surprise visit

US First Lady Jill Biden arrived on Sunday for an unannounced visit to Ukraine, where Russia continues its military operation.

Today she visited a three-day European tour of the city of Ojgorod in southwestern Ukraine near Slovakia's borders, where she met at a school converted into a centre for displaced persons with Ukrainian First Lady Olena Zelenskaya.

• The visit included a closed-door meeting between the wives of the Presidents of Ukraine and the United States for about an hour.

• This visit coincided with the celebrations of Mother's Day in Ukraine.

• Jill Biden said she had reached Ogggorod because "it is important to show the European people that this war must end," calling the ongoing dispute "fierce."

"The people of the United States stand with the Ukrainian people."

CNN quoted US officials as confirming that Jill Biden and Olena Zelenskaya had been communicating and exchanging messages in recent weeks.

US Foreign and Defence Ministers Anthony Blinken and Lloyd Austin and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Kiev last month where they held talks with Vladimir Zelensky.

In conjunction with Jill Biden and Justin Trudeau... German Parliament Speaker arrives in Ukraine

President of the German Parliament Berbel Bass on Sunday visited the Ukrainian capital of Kiev and its suburbs, and met with Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky and Prime Minister Denis Shmigal.

She visited the town of Bucha on the outskirts of Kiev, where Ukrainian authorities had accused Russian forces of killing dozens of civilians, and Moscow had categorically rejected the accusations and confirmed that they were fabricated accusations that called for an independent international investigation into these slurs.