He hadn’t been on the front line for three years and a lot of things had changed. Angelina Jolie’s visit to Ukraine last week, which was punctuated by an incident involving one of her friends, was reportedly disrupted by a Russian drone flight, the American actress said on Instagram.
“There were times when we had to take a break and wait for the drones to fly over the area,” he said in a publication “liked” by nearly 300,000 people. I was equipped with personal protective equipment, and for me, it only lasted a few days. Families here live with this every day. »
“human safari”
“The drone threat is a persistent and large presence. We could hear a faint hum in the sky,” continued the woman who had traveled to Ukraine in April 2022, to Lviv, in the west of the country, to provide support to refugees fleeing the Russian invasion.
On November 5, the 50-year-old star traveled to Kherson and Mykolaiv in the south of the country, near the front line, to speak with local rescuers, families and volunteers. A population that is “constantly tracked and terrorized” by Russian drones. “Here, they call it a human safari,” he complains.
During her trip, Angelina Jolie, who serves as the UN envoy for refugees, visited health facilities, including maternity wards and children’s hospitals, according to Ukrainian media. A local official, Vitaliï Bogdanov, published a photo on Facebook showing the actress wearing a bulletproof vest with the coat of arms of Ukraine.
Politico also revealed that someone accompanying the American actress during her trip had been “forced to be conscripted into the Ukrainian army,” it wrote, citing a senior Ukrainian official.
The Ukrainian army ground force issued a statement indicating that the person in question was the driver of the star. A post since deleted. “An investigation is underway,” they said, without further details regarding the person targeted in the incident, or its context.
