Angelina Joliehas made a surprise visit to Ukraine.
TheKyiv Independentalsotweeteda photo of Jolie at the central railway station joining a large group of crowds on Saturday. The outlet reported the actress was there “to welcome the internally displaced Ukrainians arriving on an evacuation train from Pokrovsk, a city in Donetsk Oblast.”
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Other celebrities have also stepped up to use their influence for a good cause, includingBenedict Cumberbatch.
While speaking toSky Newson Tuesday, theDoctor Strangeactor revealed he isopening up his U.K. hometo a Ukrainian family fleeing the war in their country.
“They’ve made it out of Ukraine, I’m monitoring their progress every day,” he said of the family he’s hosting with the help of the nonprofitRefugees at Home.
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“Sadly, they are undergoing some medical treatment — to say anything more about that would be invasion of their privacy and too much about when they’re coming and how that’s being managed would invade mine — but I want to give them some stability after the turmoil that they’ve experienced, and that’s within my home,” Cumberbatch, 45, added.
On Wednesday,Amal Clooneyspoke about the ongoing warat an informal United Nations Security Council meeting in New York City.
“Ukraine is, today, a slaughterhouse. Right in the heart of Europe,” she said. “Putin’s aggressive war is so outrageous that even after warnings from the U.S., and Russia’s long criminal record, Ukrainians could not believe this could happen.”
Clooney, 44, continued: “I still read news headlines, not knowing how to process them. Could it be that thousands of children are being forcibly deported to Russia? Are teenage girls being raped in the street in front of their family and neighbors? Was a building that had the word ‘children’ painted on it bombed? Are civilians in Mariupol being systematically starved and tortured to death? Unfortunately, the answer is yes.”
source: people.com
