Hollywood star and humanitarian Angelina Jolie made a shock go to to a southern Ukrainian frontline metropolis, in her second go to to the nation since Russia launched its invasion, Ukrainian media reported on Wednesday.
Jolie, who has beforehand been a United Nations ambassador for refugees, visited a maternity ward and a youngsters’s hospital in Kherson, a metropolis which was briefly occupied by Moscow in 2022 and nonetheless comes underneath day by day Russian bombardment.
A photograph revealed by native official Vitaly Bogdanov confirmed Jolie, whose hit movies embody “Maleficent”, “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” and the Lara Croft collection, sporting a bulletproof vest with Ukrainian insignia.
Neither Jolie nor the Ukrainian authorities have confirmed the go to to Kherson, which lies on the opposite facet of the Dnieper river from the Russian military.
The movie star, who served as a UN particular envoy for refugees from 2012 to 2022, had beforehand visited Ukraine a couple of months after the beginning of the Russian invasion.
Jolie, who gained the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her efficiency in 1999’s “Girl, Interrupted”, met displaced individuals within the western metropolis of Lviv.
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