Angelina Jolie meets wounded children and fans in western Ukraine
The war-torn metropolis of Lviv, in western Ukraine, obtained an surprising enhance of star energy on Saturday as Angelina Jolie paid a non-public go to to the area.
The actor, 46, is a particular envoy for the United Nations Excessive Commissioner for Refugees, however a spokesperson for the company denied she was within the metropolis, 80 kilometres from the Polish border, on official UN enterprise.
“Angelina Jolie is travelling to Ukraine in her private capability and UNHCR has no involvement on this go to,” UN spokesperson Matt Saltmarsh mentioned in an electronic mail assertion.
She was noticed in a café within the southeastern portion of the town on Saturday, the place startled onlookers shot video that was subsequently posted on Twitter. At one level, she appeared to signal autographs and was accompanied by an unidentified man.
Later Jolie was additionally noticed on the metropolis’s central prepare station, the place a video reveals her shaking palms and talking with folks.
She reportedly visited kids, now within the Lviv area, who had been injured earlier this month in a Russian airstrike on a prepare station at Kramatorsk within the jap a part of Ukraine.
Other than the scattered social media posts, little else is understood concerning the go to.
In early April, Jolie made a shock go to to younger Ukrainian warfare refugees being handled on the Bambino Gesù pediatric hospital in Rome.
She was quoted on the time in Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera as saying she was “praying for the top of the warfare” and that it was “the one technique to cease the struggling and the fleeing from the areas of battle.”
Individually, in early March, Jolie visited Aden, Yemen, in her official UN capability, a go to that helped draw consideration to the catastrophic seven-year battle and its results on the folks of that nation.
