Angelina Jolie
Air raid alert during her visit to Lviv, Ukraine
Angelina Jolie is UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador.
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Angelina Jolie surprisingly visited refugees and helpers in the Ukrainian city of Lviv. But then the air raid alarm sounded.
During her visit to Lviv, Ukraine, Hollywood star and UN Special Envoy Angelina Jolie (46) experienced at first hand the constant threat of Russian air raids. The actress surprisingly traveled to the western Ukrainian city last Saturday to talk to refugees and to visit children in a hospital. She also stopped by the volunteers at the train station to encourage them and say thank you.
However, the visit was not without a moment of shock, as new recordings show. Among others, the Ukrainian news channel HB posted a video on Twitter, which shows Jolie surrounded by several people and hurrying for safety while the air raid alarm sirens can be heard in the background. Asked by a man if she was scared, Jolie replies in the clip: “No, no, I’m fine.” The video ends immediately after that.
Luckily, the alarm appears to have been purely a security measure. So far there have been no reports of another Russian army airstrike on the city. At the end of March this year it came there according to the BBC about the first rocket attacksin which a factory and a fuel depot are said to have been hit and five people injured.
A “tireless defender”
It is not known where the star is now. Apparently, Jolie even surprised the top management on site with her visit. According to several media outlets, regional governor Maxim Kosyzki wrote on Telegram: “This visit was a surprise for all of us.”
Jolie has not only been a UNHCR special envoy for a good two decades (UNHCR stands for United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, i.e. the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees). In April 2012 she was also appointed UNHCR Special Envoy.
On the UN website Jolie is praised as a “tireless defender of refugees” who has already visited more than 40 crisis regions and has “acquired a wealth of expert knowledge” during her travels. She also supported the facility with donations. As a special envoy, she was given status in 2012, which UNHCR also “at the diplomatic level [zu] represent and advocate for the needs of refugees[zu]put”.