The 46-year-old actress is a special envoy of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, but a spokesman for the agency denied that she was in the city, 80 kilometers from the Polish border, for official UN affairs. “Angelina Jolie is traveling to Ukraine in her personal capacity and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees has no involvement in this visit,” UN spokeswoman Matt Saltmars said in an email. It was seen in a cafe in the southeastern part of the city on Saturday, where terrified viewers took a video that was then posted on Twitter. At one point he appeared to sign autographs and was accompanied by an unknown man. Jolie was later spotted at the city’s main train station, where a video shows her shaking hands and talking to people. He reportedly visited children, now in the Lviv region, who had been injured earlier this month in a Russian air raid on a railway station in Kramatorsk in eastern Ukraine. Apart from the scattered posts on social media, little else is known about the visit. In early April, Jolie paid a surprise visit to young Ukrainian war refugees being treated at Bambino Gesù Pediatric Hospital in Rome. He was quoted as saying by the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera that he was “praying for an end to the war” and that it was “the only way to stop the suffering and escape from the conflict zones”. Separately, in early March, Jolie visited Aden, Yemen, in her official capacity at the UN, a visit that helped draw attention to the catastrophic seven-year conflict and its impact on the people of that country.
