Actor Sean Penn, who was filming a documentary in Ukraine when Russia invaded the nation final week, has mentioned he and a number of other members of his movie crew witnessed a harrowing scene as they walked “miles” to the nation’s border with Poland.
Alongside the route, the “Useless Man Strolling” star mentioned he and his colleagues encountered lengthy traces of vehicles idling on the roadway. The autos had been stuffed with girls and kids who had been attempting to flee the nation as Russia escalated its assaults on the capital Kyiv.
“Myself & two colleagues walked miles to the Polish border after abandoning our automotive on the facet of the highway,” Penn wrote on Twitter Monday night.
“Virtually all of the vehicles on this photograph carry girls & youngsters solely, most with none signal of baggage, and a automotive their solely possession of worth,” he continued.
The put up included a photograph of Penn strolling alongside a freeway whereas pulling a taped-up suitcase and toting a backpack. A queue of autos stretched into the gap to his proper.
The 2-time Oscar winner didn't say why he and his crew needed to abandon their automotive.
Penn was in Ukraine final Thursday engaged on a documentary about heightened tensions between Kyiv and Moscow when Russian troops launched an artillery bombardment and commenced crossing the border into the previous Soviet state.
Later that day, he was seen attending a briefing on the Presidential Workplace in Kyiv and had a gathering with President Volodymyr Zelensky and different Ukrainian officers, based on Instagram postings.
In a assertion to The Publish final week, Penn known as on America and nations world wide to face with Ukraine.
“Already a brutal mistake of lives taken and hearts damaged, and if he doesn’t relent, I imagine Mr. Putin can have made a most horrible mistake for all of humankind,” Penn mentioned on the time.
“President Zelensky and the Ukrainian folks have risen as historic symbols of braveness and precept. Ukraine is the tip of the spear for the democratic embrace of desires. If we permit it to battle alone, our soul as America is misplaced.”
Penn has a behavior of touring to violent and disaster-hit elements of the world. He was noticed in New Orleans within the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and Haiti after an earthquake struck the island in 2010.
In 2015, Penn traveled to Mexico to interview infamous drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera for Rolling Stone journal months earlier than his seize.
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