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Angelina Jolie’s surprise visit to Kherson – See video and photos

Visited maternity hospital and hospital - The Hollywood star's second visit to Ukraine since the start of the war

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In Kherson southern Ukraine, Angelina Jolie, former UN ambassador for refugees, was unexpectedly found on Wednesday.

The American actress visited medical facilities, including a maternity hospital and a children’s hospital in a city under Russian control for several months in 2022.

Angelina Jolie receives a commemorative "Kherson" coin as a gift in an actual city of Kherson, Ukraine.

I just want to remind everyone abroad about Russia’s “human safari” in Kherson – they hunt civilians with drones. It’s one of the most dangerous places in Ukraine, and one… pic.twitter.com/UO7TEBK9Pc

— Kate from Kharkiv (@BohuslavskaKate) November 5, 2025

The visit appears to have included some unexpected events.

At a checkpoint, authorities reportedly discovered that one of Jolie’s bodyguards had not completed his military service and immediately escorted him to a recruitment office. The situation was resolved only after Jolie’s personal intervention.

A local official, Vitalii Bohdanov, posted a photo on Facebook showing Angelina Jolie wearing a bulletproof vest bearing Ukrainian insignia.

Neither the actress nor the Ukrainian government made any public statement about the visit.

The Hollywood star — who served as a UN Refugee Agency envoy from 2012 to 2022 — had previously visited Ukraine a few months after Russia’s invasion began, meeting with displaced people in Lviv, in the western part of the country.

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Watch a video of her 2022 visit:

Wild start to Angelina Jolie's visit to war-torn Kherson, Ukraine: Her convoy was stopped at a checkpoint. One bodyguard's docs were flagged by conscription officers—off to the TCC (military enlistment center) he went! Even pleading "I'm escorting a VIP peacekeeper" didn't help.… pic.twitter.com/qIdJo7NknL

— Iuliia Mendel (@IuliiaMendel) November 5, 2025


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