REVEALED: Angelina Jolie pays secret visit to orphans in Ukraine during whistle-stop tour of warzone as actress declares: 'The impact on the children is devastating to see'
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- Published on Monday, 02 May 2022 05:11
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Angelina Jolie made a secret visit to an orphanage in Ukraine as part of a whistle-stop trip to the war-torn nation.The Hollywood star, 46, kept her journey under wraps, with members of her entourage reportedly signing deals banning them from revealing any details.Local officials had no knowledge of her visit to the orphanage at an undisclosed location around 90 minutes’ drive from the western city of Lviv.The mother of six is a UN envoy for refugees but officials there insisted her visit was made in ‘a private capacity’.Sources said Miss Jolie left the country tonight after arriving in Lviv on Saturday. The star of Tomb Raider also visited children at a hospital and later spoke to refugees at the train station, which 1.5 million Ukrainians have travelled through fleeing to safety. When an air raid alert sounded, Miss Jolie seemed unfazed before being ushered away.Asked if she was afraid, she replied: ‘No, I don’t care.’ Last night in a statement, the actress said: ‘I’m humbled to witness the resilience and courage and dignity of the Ukrainian people. The impact the war is having on a generation of Ukrainian children is devastating to see.’A spokesman denied that Miss Jolie, who has three adopted children, planned to adopt another, insisting that the secrecy around the orphanage visit was for security reasons.Reporters who tried to approach the star at the train station on Saturday were told it was a private visit.‘Angelina said her visit was not for press,’ said aid volunteer Rostyslav Hetman (CORR) who posed for a selfie with Ms Jolie at the station.However, Ms Jolie did pose for dozens of selfies and travelled with her own personal photographer who supplied pictures hand-picked by the star to the media.Before giving birth to her three youngest children Shiloh, 14, and twins Knox and Vivienne, 13, who she had with actor Brad Pitt, Jolie became a mom to Maddox, 20, Pax, 18 and Zahara, 17, through adoption.Maddox and Zahara were adopted from orphanages in Cambodia and Ethiopia by Angelina.She and her ex-husband Billy Bob Thornton adopted her oldest child, Maddox Chivan in 2002.The pair took in Maddox after finding him in a Cambodian orphanage, but the adoption process took a while due to US government legislation.Three years after welcoming Maddox into her family, Angelina adopted six-month-old Ethiopian orphan Zahara Marley.Miss Jolie previously opened up about the importance of honouring her three adopted children’s roots in an interview with Vogue.‘Each is a beautiful way of becoming family. What is important is to speak with openness about all of it and to share. “Adoption” and “orphanage” are positive words in our home,’ the Oscar winner said.She went on to describe her children as ‘six very brave, very strong young people.’In the same interview, the movie star spoke of ending her marriage to Brad Pitt, whom she met in 2004 on the set of the film Mr. And Mrs. Smith, for the ‘well-being’ of kids.The former Hollywood power couple - known as Brangelina - married in August 2014 after 10 years together. But they split in 2016 after Mr Pitt and Maddox allegedly got into an argument on a private jet while on the way to Los Angeles.The row led to Angelina filing for divorce that year. Mr Pitt was later cleared of any wrongdoing but a judge granted Angelina physical custody of all six children.
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Angelina Jolie Ukraine air raid terror: Moment actress and her entourage are bundled to safety in a bunker as sirens blare during a visit to Lviv in war-torn country
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- Published on Sunday, 01 May 2022 10:40
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Movie star Angelina Jolie has been rushed to safety amid fears of an imminent rocket attack while on a visit to the western city of Lviv in Ukraine. Jolie, 46, drew attention as a video emerged of her walking briskly with an entourage as an air raid siren went off.As the group was filmed walking away to safety, a female member turned to the camera and said 'please, no more'. Movie star Angelina Jolie has been rushed to safety amid fears of an imminent rocket attack while on a visit to the western city of Lviv in Ukraine. The actress herself took time to wave to the camera and insisted 'I'm okay' when asked.Jolie has worked as a special envoy for the United Nations (UN) Refugee Agency for many years, but the specifics of her trip to Ukraine are unclear.Lviv has been under attack from the Russian army in recent weeks and earlier this month, a missile attack on the city left at least seven people dead.Earlier, Ukrainian Maya Pidhorodetska posted another video of the famous actress and filmmaker on Facebook.'Nothing special. Just Lviv. I just went to have coffee. Just Angelina Jolie,' she wrote in Ukrainian after filming the actress, who waved to her from the counter. 'Ukraine is simply supported by the whole world.'In Pidhorodetska's clip, Jolie was seen happily talking with locals in Lviv while wearing casual clothes.Fans spotted her in the Ukrainian city, greeting Jolie as Russian forces gathered in the east of the country for a renewed assault.Footage taken earlier in the day shows her singing autographs for fans and sharing conversations with several local residents.Lviv's regional governor Maksym Kozytsky said Jolie - who has been a UNHCR Special Envoy for Refugees since 2011 - had come to speak with displaced people who have found refuge in Lviv, including children undergoing treatment for injuries sustained in the missile strike on the Kramatorsk railway station in early April.The attack in the eastern Ukrainian city appeared to deliberately target a crowd of mostly women and children trying to flee a looming Russian offensive, killing at least 52 and wounding dozens more.'She was very moved by (the children´s) stories,' Kozytsky wrote. 'One girl was even able to privately tell Ms. Jolie about a dream she'd had.'He said Jolie also visited a boarding school, talk with students and took photos with them, adding 'she promised she would come again.' In February, Jolie spoke about the war in Ukraine in a post to her 12.7 million Instagram followers.She wrote: 'Like many of you, I'm praying for the people in Ukraine.'My focus along with my @refugees colleagues is that everything possible is done to ensure the protection and basic human rights of those displaced, and refugees in the region.
'We have already seen reports of casualties and people starting to flee their homes to seek safety.'It is too soon to know what will happen, but the significance of this moment - for the people of Ukraine, and for the international rule of law - cannot be overstated.' 'The visit was a surprise to us all,' wrote Lviv's regional governor on his Telegram channel. 'Plenty of people who saw Ms. Jolie in the Lviv region could not believe that it was really her. But since Feb. 24, Ukraine has shown the entire world that there are plenty of incredible things here.' According to Kozytsky, Jolie also met with evacuees arriving at Lviv's central railway station, as well as with Ukrainian volunteers providing the new arrivals with medical help and counseling.During the visit to the station, Jolie met volunteers working with the displaced, who told her that each of the psychiatrists on duty spoke to about 15 people a day. Many of those in the station are children aged from two to 10, according to volunteers.'They must be in shock... I know how trauma affects children, I know just having somebody show how much they matter, how much their voices matter, I know how healing that is for them,' she said in reply.The United Nations refugee agency says more than 12.7 million people have fled their homes in the past two months, which represents around 30 per cent of Ukraine's pre-war population. Last month, in her role as special envoy, Jolie also visited Yemen, where millions of people have been displaced by war.But she is not the first American celebrity to land in Ukraine during the conflict.American actor Sean Penn was met with the country's president and attending government press briefings as part of a VICE documentary he is filming.When Kyiv was under assault, Penn and his team walked miles to the Polish border.The actor, 61, said both he and his film crew decided to abandon their car and pursue on foot after seeing the thousands of Ukrainian residents fleeing for safety, with queues stretching for miles. Penn described how cars were filled with women and children, with their only possession of value being the vehicle they were travelling in.
The documentary is a VICE Studios production, 'in association with VICE World News and Endeavor Content,' according to a spokesman for the media group.In a translated Facebook post, the Ukrainian government said it was grateful for Sean being there and he was lauded as being more courageous than Western leaders.Although the majority of the fighting has shifted to the east of the country, Ukrainian cities in the West such as Lviv are still under bombardment from Russian missile attacks.On Saturday, Ukrainian officials said the bodies of more than 1,000 civilians have been retrieved from areas around Kyiv, and they are working with French investigators to document alleged war crimes.Forensic tests carried out on civilian corpses dumped in mass graves show women were raped before being brutally killed, it was revealed on Monday.Dozens of autopsies have been carried out on mutilated corpses from Bucha, Irpin and Borodianka, with many showing signs of torture and multiple bullet holes in the back.One coroner north of Kyiv said it is difficult to find signs of rape and sexual abuse because the bodies 'are in such bad shape'.A United Nations mission to Bucha documented 'the unlawful killing, including by summary execution, of some 50 civilians there', the UN's Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights said.In the same town, 25 women aged 14 to 25 were kept in a basement and systematically raped, with nine of the women becoming pregnant in a case now recorded by human rights commissioner Lyudmila Denisova.
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BREAKING: Angelina Jolie visits Ukraine - Movie star is spotted in Western city of Lviv and greets fans in coffee shop as Russia renews its assault in East
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- Published on Sunday, 01 May 2022 10:42
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Actress Angelina Jolie surprised Ukrainians after turning up to a cafe in Lviv on Saturday.Jolie, 46, drew attention as she appeared wearing nondescript clothing at the cafe, with Maya Pidhorodetska posting a video of the famous actress and filmmaker on Facebook.'Nothing special. Just Lviv. I just went to have coffee. Just Angelina Jolie,' she wrote in Ukrainian after filming the actress, who waved to her from the counter. 'Ukraine is simply supported by the whole world.'Fans spotted her in the Ukrainian city, greeting Jolie as Russian forces gathered in the east of the country for a renewed assault.Footage shows her singing autographs for her fans in Ukraine.
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Angelina Jolie visits Ukrainian child refugees at the Vatican’s children hospital who have arrived in Italy after fleeing Putin’s bombs
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- Published on Saturday, 02 April 2022 17:18
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Hollywood megastar Angelina Jolie put aside time from her glamorous life producing, directing and sometimes acting in movies to carry out humanitarian aid work in in Rome.Jolie, who was raised a Catholic and dedicates much of her time to doing work for the United Nations Refugee Agency, paid a visit to the Bambino Gesu pediatric hospital just outside the walls of Vatican City on March 30. Here she met Ukranian children who had arrived in Italy after fleeing the war in their home country, some of whom are very sick.The children had been forced to flee their homes and country when Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24. Unicef estimates that two million child refugees have left Ukraine since the start of the war, with a further 2.5 million displaced internally and 60% of Ukrainian children forced to leave their homes.Jolie also met the doctors and nurses who have been charged with taking care of the refugees.The star of the recent Marvel movie Eternals received a Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award for her humanitarian work in 2013 and has been a Special Envoy for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees since 2012, undertaking dozens of trips to visit camps with refugees from countries such as Yemen, Burkina Faso, Venezuela and many more.
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Angelina Jolie looks effortlessly chic in figure hugging dress and long black coat as she gets caught in rain in Rome
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- Published on Thursday, 31 March 2022 06:55
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She's known for her fantastic sense of style.And Wednesday was no exception as Angelina Jolie cut an elegant figure as she got caught in the rain in Rome, Italy. The 46-year-old looked stunning in a figure hugging wool dress, with a chic boat neck. The gorgeous slate ensemble clung to the Tomb Raider stars fantastic figure, falling just above the knee. Wrapping up from the bad weather the Oscar winner wore an oversized black coat with extenuated collar and button detail. The Maleficent Actress enjoyed a personal tour of ancient buildings on a rare outing without any of her and ex-husband Brad Pitt's six children.Accessorising the look with a simple gold anklet and a pair of smart pointed fawn heels.Her guide held out a black umbrella for the star, as they both wore face masks, making their way through the heavy rain.Her outing comes after appearing on NBC Nightly News last week to talk about the recently renewed Violence Against Women Act.On the segment, she spoke to Kate Snow about how the law's passing was 'a long time coming' as the system currently in place to protect survivors is 'unbelievably broken' and needs serious reform 'I think, I think this country doesn't recognise what a serious domestic violence and child abuse problem it really has,' she said. 'And I think, I think there is a reality that when somebody harms a child, if it's a stranger, the way the law looks at it, the way the law responds, it's quite strong.' 'When it's somebody within a family, within a home, it is responded to less. And if you can imagine for the child in fact, that's, that's in many ways worse.'She added: 'I think once you're exposed to this system, whoever you are, once you're exposed to it and you realize how unbelievably broken this system is, you have to do something to improve it.' Jolie said the bill was 'personal to everyone' and has had her own experience with the family court system after accusing her former spouse of verbally and physically assaulting one of their six kids on a private plane in 2016.'It is personal to everyone,' Jolie said. 'Everyone who cares about family, everyone who cares about children, everyone who cares about their own safety and the health of their community.'He was cleared of any wrongdoing after an investigation by both the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services and the FBI.'My children's health is my priority at this moment,' she added. 'And my focus for the last few years has been to help my family and … to focus on helping change laws to protect other families and other women and focus on their stories.' Angelina and Brad began dating in 2004 after meeting on set of Mr. and Mrs. Smith and married in 2014.She filed for divorce two years later, though, in 2016 citing 'irreconcilable differences' and it was finalised in 2019.They've continued battling in court for custody of four of their six children who are still legally minors, and a host of properties acquired throughout their marriage.Ruth Glenn of the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence Glenn spoke about the significance of the reauthorization, saying, 'Many, many survivors who have not had their needs addressed previously will now have their needs addressed.'In addition to funding for Pell Grants and other programs, the act was also part of a bill which provided billions in emergency aid to Ukraine.
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