Angelina Jolie Visits Kherson Amid Ukraine war

Angelina Jolie is no stranger to war zones — she’s filmed in Bosnia, Cambodia, Chechnya and wherever in the world those winged battles in Maleficent took place — but never before has she ventured to a place so genuinely hazardous. On Nov. 5, the Oscar-winning actress quietly slipped into a part of Ukraine even seasoned war correspondents rarely go — the frontline city of Kherson — for an appearance so unlikely that Kyiv Pos t deputy chief editor Alisa Orlova initially thought reports of her sighting were “a joke.”

“There are almost daily attacks on Kherson,” Orlova tells Rambling Reporter. “The rockets can hit the city in as little as one minute, maybe 30 seconds. But then the videos started appearing in my feed with [Jolie] in the hospital with children. She really was in Kherson.”