The protagonist of ‘Zoolander’ was impressed by the way Zelensky has managed to lead the country and its citizens
The President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, has met with American actor Ben Stiller who has visited Ukraine as a goodwill ambassador of the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR).
“You’re my hero, what you are doing is very great”, said the actor, director and screenwriter to the Ukrainian president when greeting him this Monday in kyiv.
The protagonist of ‘Zoolander’ was impressed by the way Zelensky has managed to lead the country and its citizens, which is “inspiring”, and reminded him of his past as a comedic actor, something the two share.
Zelensky told him that he also “it was an honor for him” to meet you and welcome you to Ukraine, and assured him that he knew his entire career in Hollywood.
Stiller and the UNHCR representative in Ukraine, Karolina Lindholm Billing, visited the president’s office after taking a tour by some of the settlements that were occupied by the Russians in the kyiv region.
They visited, in particular, the dilapidated residential areas of Irpin, where they spoke with the people who survived the occupation, reported the Ukrainian president’s website.
“It’s one thing to see this destruction on television or on social media. Another thing is to see everything with your own eyes. That’s much more shocking,” Ben Stiller told Zelensky.
“What you saw in Irpin is definitely appalling. But it is even worse to imagine what is happening in the settlements that are still under temporary occupation in the east,” Zelensky replied.
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The President and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador spoke about the needs of displaced people temporarily in the Ukraine, as well as those that have been located in Poland, which Ben Stiller visited the day before.
Zelensky and the UNHCR delegation they also discussed ways of greater cooperation of the Ukrainian authorities with the international organization.