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Hollywood star Sean Penn leaves Ukraine on foot, ‘walks miles’ to reach Polish border

The Oscar-winning actor tweeted an image of him walking with a backpack and trolley against a line of cars, waiting to get a safe passage to the neighbouring country.

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New Delhi: Hollywood actor Sean Penn, who was in Ukraine to film a documentary, has joined a milieu of Ukrainians who are fleeing the country and trying to reach the Polish border.

The 61-year-old actor Tuesday tweeted an image of him walking with a backpack and trolley against a line of cars, waiting to get a safe passage to the neighbouring country.

Penn said that he and his two colleagues walked miles to the Polish border after they abandoned their car on the side of the road, although the tweet did elaborate why they were forced to leave their vehicle.

He said the cars in the picture are carrying only women and children, most of them without any luggage, and a car was their “only possession of value”.

According to a Reuters report, Penn had “made it out of Ukraine safely”.

The Oscar-winning actor was photographed last Thursday attending a press briefing at the Presidential Office in Kyiv, the day Russia began its military offensive in Ukraine.

“Today, Sean Penn is among those who support Ukraine in Ukraine. Our country is grateful to him for such a display of courage and honesty,” the Office of the President had written in a Facebook post.

Penn had also met Deputy Prime Minister Iryna Vereshchuk and spoke to journalists and military personnel about the Russian aggression.

According to the post, Penn had come to Ukraine last November for the documentary and spoke with the Ukrainian military.

Since the outbreak of war in Ukraine, Penn has staunchly condemned Russian President Vladimir Putin’s action and said if he doesn’t relent, he “will have made a most horrible mistake for all of humankind”.

Calling Ukraine the “tip of the spear for the democratic embrace of dreams”, the actor and filmmaker said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and the Ukrainian people “have risen as historic symbols of courage and principle”.

Penn has found himself in conflict regions and disaster zones in the past. He had earlier travelled to Haiti after an earthquake of magnitude 7.0 rocked the country in 2010. In 2005, Penn had visited New Orleans to help the rescue efforts after Hurricane Katrina caused massive destruction.

“From climate to conflict resolution, to poverty and Covid, citizenship increasingly requires service. Service itself can be a bumpy road, but one we all have to travel,” Penn was quoted as saying in Entertainment Weekly last year. Penn has been involved in numerous international humanitarian activities through his organisation CORE.

His prior travels have been chronicled in Citizen Penn in the Discovery+ documentary.


Also read: The thermobaric and cluster bombs that Russia is ‘showering’ on Ukraine


 

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