TOarrives without announcements, in silence, Angelina Jolie. It is in Ukraine, in Kherson, one of the cities most exposed to bombing today and to drone incursions coming from Russian positions on the other side of the Dnipro. Here life flows between constant alarms and races towards the shelters. The actress moves discreetly: listens to the stories of the refugees, asks questions. He sits next to those who suffer and fear for their lives every day.
Angelina Jolie in Ukraine, in underground hospitals
Accompanied by the Legacy of War Foundationthe actress visited a maternity hospital and a pediatric ward moved underground to protect newborns and healthcare workers. A common reality today in several regions of southern Ukraine. Medical teams work with generators, limited supplies and the sound of drones which vibrates like a permanent background.
He met mothers who hug their children between blankets and oxygen masks, doctors who carry on out of habit and tenacity. Then the refuge schools: small desks, reinforced walls and drawings hung where there used to be windows. “Their strength and support for each other is heartwarming,” he said.
Kherson, the Ukrainian city that resists
In this part of Ukraine, unpredictability is daily. The “road of death” – the main access road to Kherson – is dotted with burnt cars. Yet the city continues to cook, teach, heal. Resistance is not slogans: it is organized survival.
The case of Angelina Jolie’s driver: war spares no one
Only after the visit did it become known that one of the drivers of the actress’s convoy had been stopped at a Ukrainian checkpoint and sent for compulsory military service. In Ukraine, all men between the ages of 25 and 60 can be mobilized; the lack of a valid exemption is sufficient to be withheld. Angelina Jolie personally went to the recruitment center to clarify the man’s position. Not as a celebrity, but as a person involved. An episode that showed a simple and hard truth: in war, no one is excluded.
Angelina Jolie’s humanitarian commitment
The visit to Kherson It’s not Angelina Jolie’s first time in Ukraine. In 2022, the actress was in Lviv, where she met displaced people and volunteers at reception stations, while trains continued to bring families to Poland. Before that, the Her humanitarian work had taken her to Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, South Sudan, Myanmar, Bangladesh: places where borders are not lines on maps, but daily frontiers between escape and return. For over twenty years she was a UNHCR special correspondent, always choosing to be present where stories risk being forgotten.
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