Sean Penn, who gained an Oscar for greatest supporting actor for “One Battle After Another” on Sunday, was in Ukraine on Monday the place he met President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a present of help for the war-torn nation.
An AFP reporter noticed the “Mystic River” star getting out of a black automotive in central Kyiv earlier Monday, carrying sun shades and carrying a field of cigarettes.
Penn — a vocal advocate for Ukraine who has visited the nation a number of instances — on Sunday gained his third appearing Oscar however was not on the ceremony.
“We can say that he’s in Ukraine, but it’s his personal visit; that’s how he sees it, that he needs to be in Ukraine,” a senior Ukrainian official instructed AFP, including: “He just wants to support Ukraine.”
Penn — who co-directed a 2023 documentary about Zelenskyy — met the Ukrainian president on Monday.
“Sean, thanks to you, we know what a true friend of Ukraine is,” Zelenskyy stated on social media, posting an image of the pair sat down within the president’s workplace.
“You have stood with Ukraine since the first day of the full-scale war. This is still true today,” Zelenskyy stated.
In an interview with AFP in February, Zelensky listed “One Battle After Another”, starring Penn, amongst his most not too long ago watched films and stated he “liked it”.
A second supply instructed AFP that the actor was additionally “planning to go to the front” in japanese Ukraine.
The movie Penn co-directed, an admiring portrait of Zelenskyy about his rise from comic to conflict chief when Russia invaded in 2022, premiered on the Berlin movie pageant in 2023.
In 2025, Penn and rock star Bono made an impassioned plea on the Cannes movie pageant for the West to face by Ukraine, posing for photos on the crimson carpet with Ukrainian troopers.
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