Ben Stiller visits war-torn Ukraine after meeting with refugees in Poland

Actor Ben Stiller was noticed in war-torn Ukraine on Sunday after assembly with Ukrainian refugees throughout the border in Poland.

Video footage reveals the “Hustle” and “Zoolander” star apparently FaceTiming on his cellphone in Lviv and in addition listening to somebody as he stood amongst a small group of individuals.

Stiller’s journey to the western a part of Ukraine got here after he met with refugees in Poland as a very good will ambassador for the United Nations Excessive Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), in response to social-media posts.

Anton Gerashchenko, an adviser to Ukraine’s minister of inside affairs, tweeted two photographs of Stiller, together with not less than one in every of him speaking to a teenage boy in Lviv.

“Hollywood actor Ben Stiller, UN Goodwill ambassador, was noticed in #Lviv,” the federal government aide wrote. “He spent a while with Ukrainian refugees on the Polish-Ukrainian border as nicely. Thanks, buddy.”

Actor Ben Stiller visited Ukrainian refugees in Poland earlier than crossing into Ukraine.

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Stiller’s go to got here as he represented the United Nations Excessive Commissioner for Refugees as a goodwill ambassador.

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Throughout his time in Poland, Stiller shared photographs on Instagram about assembly with households “whose lives have been torn aside by conflict and violence in Ukraine.

“Tens of millions have been pressured to flee their houses with over 90% being girls and youngsters,” the actor wrote in a single put up. “I’m right here to be taught, to share tales that illustrate the human influence of conflict and to amplify requires solidarity.”

In one other photograph he posted on the social-media app, a younger refugee boy and lady have been giving a hug to the “There’s One thing About Mary” actor.

Stiller seen in Lviv, Ukraine on June 18, 2022.

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Stiller talking on the cellphone as he walks in Lviv, Ukraine on June 18, 2022.

Oleg Shan through REUTERS

“Close to the Medyka border in Poland I had an opportunity to fulfill some households who fled the conflict in Ukraine, leaving family members behind with no thought when they'll be capable of return home- or have houses to return to,” Stiller wrote within the accompanying put up.

Stiller isn't the primary big-name actor to go to the nation because it faces down Russia in its ongoing conflict with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin. Angelina Jolie stunned prospects in a espresso store in Lviv in late April.