Hollywood actress and UN Goodwill Ambassador for Refugees Angelina Jolie visited Ukraine on her own initiative.
Matt Saltmarsh, UN spokesman, spoke about this. According to him, Jolie expressed her desire to go to the west of Ukraine and personally support the refugees – her visit was not organized as part of a United Nations humanitarian mission:
“Angelina Jolie came to Ukraine on her own initiative and the UN has nothing to do with this visit,” Saltmarsh said, CBC News reports .
Recall that on Saturday, April 30, in one of the cafes in Lviv in the residential area of Sykhiv, they noticed a Hollywood star Angelina Jolie, who is also the UN Goodwill Ambassador for Refugees.
After that, the celebrity went to the Lviv railway station, where she met the passengers of the evacuation train from Pokrovsk and talked to them personally. The star also visited children in the hospital who suffered from a missile attack by the Russian military on the railway station in Kramatorsk.
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