Ben Stiller

Actor Ben Stiller met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv on Monday, marking World Refugee Day.

It's something else to actually see it and feel it." Stiller visited Zelenskyy in his role as an ambassador for the United Nations refugee agency. "Just the actual impact of coming here," he said. "No, but pretty great," Stiller responded. You're amazing," he said. “You quit a great acting career for this,” Stiller told Zelenskyy, praising the president for his leadership in the war.

Stars such as Liev Schreiber and Sean Penn have also visited Ukraine to show support during the war with Russia.

He also spoke at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in May, following Zelenskyy's speech. The office shared a photo of Penn at the briefing, sitting in the front row, wearing sun glasses. Similarly, Angelina Jolie has also done extensive work with the agency, and visited Ukraine earlier this year. He also visited Ukraine in November 2021 and spoke with the military in Priazov for his documentary. Jolie also visited a boarding school and spoke to students, promising to visit again, Kozytskyy said. "Seeking safety is a right and it needs to be upheld for every person."

US actor and comedian Ben Stiller said Tuesday he had been deeply affected by the stories he heard from Ukrainians after a surprise visit to the war-torn ...

It's really tough when you hear a young person say that, and you realise the effects of war are not always visible." "The work that UNHCR and other NGOs do is so important. "To see the physical destruction of those neighbourhoods, it's really massive, and it's impossible not to be affected by that," Stiller said.