Angelina Jolie wears body armor in war-torn Ukraine on daring mission to visit children
Oscar-winning actress and former UN Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie was spotted this week in the embattled city of Kherson, Ukraine, reportedly on a humanitarian mission.
Kherson has been a frontline target of Russian forces since 2022, and locals say Jolie visited several hospitals, including a maternity ward and a children’s hospital, bringing attention to civilians caught in the crossfire.
She stepped down from the role to focus on broader humanitarian and human rights issues, but has returned to Ukraine multiple times.
In 2022, she visited Lviv, meeting children injured in the Kramatorsk train station missile strike.
She spoke with displaced families at the city’s railway station, taking shelter under air raid sirens.
The Malificent star also paid a visit to Ukrainian child refugees in Rome that same year.
That same year, she visited Ukrainian child refugees in Rome at Bambino Gesu pediatric hospital just outside Vatican City.
Here she met Ukranian children who had arrived in Italy after fleeing the war in their home country.
These children were among the more than two million estimated by UNICEF who have fled Ukraine since Russia launched its full-scale invasion on February 24, 2022, with another 2.5 million displaced internally.
