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Ben Stiller Meets Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for World Refugees Day: ‘Seeking Safety Is a Right’

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Wilson Chapman editorActor Ben Stiller met with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday, during World Refugees Day.Stiller is currently visiting Ukraine in the role of a goodwill ambassador of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.

Since Saturday, Stiller has traveled through Poland and Ukraine, where he has met with people forced to flee their homes due to the current Russian invasion of Ukraine.

On Monday, he visited occupied settlements in the Kyiv Region, including the residential areas of Kyiv.According to a press release from the official website for Zelenskyy, Stiller and Ukraine’s UNHCR representative Karolina Lindholm Billing visited Zelenskyy on Monday after their visit to Irpin to discuss their meetings with refugees. “It’s one thing to see this destruction on TV or on social networks.

Another thing is to see it all with your own eyes,” Stiller said during the meeting. “That’s a lot more shocking.”“What you saw in Irpin is definitely dreadful,” Zelenskyy said, according to the press release. “But it is even worse to just imagine what is happening in the settlements that are still under temporary occupation in the east.”Steller and Zelenskyy spent the meeting discussing the needs of those in the Ukraine and Poland who have been displaced by the Russia’s invasion of the country, as well as how the UNHCR and the Ukrainian government can work together to solve the refugee crisis.

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