BOSTON, Mass. (SHNS)--Governor Maura Healey met Tuesday morning with the first lady of Ukraine, Olena Zelenska, at the State House, her office confirmed. The governor's office said it would have additional information about the meeting later. Zelenska was in town to attend an event being hosted Tuesday afternoon by Harvard's Ukrainian Research Institute, the Harvard Kennedy School Institute of Politics and the Belfer Center at the Harvard Kennedy School, according to the institute. Gov. holds signing ceremony for sexual assault law Oleh Kotsyuba, director of print and digital publications at the institute, said on social media that the event will provide "an opportunity to have a meeting with our past donors and affiliated scholars, chaired by the First Lady, to brainstorm the vision and needs for the next 50 years of our Institute's existence—as well as to talk about the future of #Ukrainian studies in North America and around the world more broadly." A little after 11 a.m., the entrance to Healey's office suite was blocked off by velvet ropes and an elevator was being held right outside in the third floor hallway. A handful of people representing Ukraine -- some wearing Ukrainian flag lapel pins, one in a Ukrainian flag T-shirt and someone carrying a Ukrainian flag -- left the governor's suite around 11:15 a.m. Security was beefed up in and around the State House for Zelenska's visit. A group of law enforcement personnel on motorcycles idled on Bowdoin Street, including Cambridge Police officers and others from the State Police.