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Zelensky and “The Jewish Question”

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“Polit­i­cal language…is designed to make lies sound truth­ful and mur­der respectable, and to give an appear­ance of solid­i­ty to pure wind.”

— George Orwell, 1946

Mod­ern Times: Cel­e­bra­tion of the 75th Anniver­sary of the 14th Waf­fen SS Divi­sion in Lviv, Ukraine in sum­mer of 2018. THIS is what lurks beneath the thin facade of Zelen­sky’s “Jew­ish­ness.”

COMMENT: A deeply unpop­u­lar war goal of Putin’s is “De-Naz­i­fi­ca­tion.” As we have demon­strat­ed and as the pic­ture at right demon­strates, that goal is rel­e­vant.

That goal has been derid­ed by the U.S. and the West, using pres­i­dent Zelen­sky’s Jew­ish iden­ti­ty as a rebut­tal.

The irony of that rebut­tal lies in its essence: in effect, it is a Nazi iter­a­tion of iden­ti­ty pol­i­tics!

“He could­n’t be a Nazi, because he is a Jew.”

(NB: Mr. Emory’s use of the term “Jew­ish Ques­tion” bor­rows the Nazi euphemism for what became the Final Solu­tion to that “Ques­tion.”)

In that regard we note:

  • ” . . . . Zelensky’s top finan­cial backer, the Ukrain­ian Jew­ish oli­garch Igor Kolo­moisky, has been a key bene­fac­tor of the neo-Nazi Azov Bat­tal­ion and oth­er extrem­ists mili­tias. . . . Igor Kolo­moisky, a Ukrain­ian ener­gy baron of Jew­ish her­itage, has been a top fun­der of Azov since it was formed in 2014. He has also bankrolled pri­vate mili­tias like the Dnipro and Aidar Bat­tal­ions, and has deployed them as a per­son­al thug squad to pro­tect his finan­cial inter­ests. . . .”
  • ” . . . . Though Zelen­sky made anti-cor­rup­tion the sig­na­ture issue of his cam­paign, the Pan­do­ra Papers exposed him and mem­bers of his inner cir­cle stash­ing large pay­ments from Kolo­moisky in a shad­owy web of off­shore accounts. . . .”
  • The elec­tion mon­i­tors of Zelen­sky’s bid were drawn from the Azov Bat­tal­ion’s Nation­al Druzhi­na Mili­tia: ” . . . . They are the ultra­na­tion­al­ist Nation­al Mili­tia, street vig­i­lantes with roots in the bat­tle-test­ed Azov Bat­tal­ion that emerged to defend Ukraine against Rus­sia-backed sep­a­ratists but was also accused of pos­si­ble war crimes and neo-Nazi sym­pa­thies. Yet despite the con­tro­ver­sy sur­round­ing it, the Nation­al Mili­tia was grant­ed per­mis­sion by the Cen­tral Elec­tion Com­mis­sion to offi­cial­ly mon­i­tor Ukraine’s pres­i­den­tial elec­tion on March 31. . . .”
  • ” . . . . In March 2019, mem­bers of the Azov Battalion’s Nation­al Corps attacked the home of Vik­tor Medved­chuk, the lead­ing oppo­si­tion fig­ure in Ukraine, accus­ing him of trea­son for his friend­ly rela­tions with Vladimir Putin, the god­fa­ther of Medvedchuk’s daugh­ter. Zelensky’s admin­is­tra­tion esca­lat­ed the attack on Medved­chuk, shut­ter­ing sev­er­al media out­lets he con­trolled in Feb­ru­ary 2021 with the open approval of the U.S.  State Depart­ment, and jail­ing the oppo­si­tion leader for trea­son three months lat­er. Zelen­sky jus­ti­fied his actions on the grounds that he need­ed to ‘fight against the dan­ger of Russ­ian aggres­sion in the infor­ma­tion are­na.’ Next, in August 2020, Azov’s Nation­al Corps opened fire on a bus con­tain­ing mem­bers of Medvedchuk’s par­ty, Patri­ots for Life, wound­ing sev­er­al with rub­ber-coat­ed steel bul­lets. . . .”

“How Zelen­sky Made Peace With Neo-Nazis” by Alex Rubin­stein and Max Blu­men­thal [The Gray­zone]; Con­sor­tium News; 3/4/2022.

Back in Octo­ber 2019, as the war in east­ern Ukraine dragged on, Ukrain­ian Pres­i­dent Volodymyr Zelen­sky trav­eled to Zolote, a town sit­u­at­ed firm­ly in the “gray zone” of Don­bas, where over 14,000 had been killed, most­ly on the pro-Russ­ian side. There, the pres­i­dent encoun­tered the hard­ened vet­er­ans of extreme right para­mil­i­tary units keep­ing up the fight against sep­a­ratists just a few miles away.

Elect­ed on a plat­form of de-esca­la­tion of hos­til­i­ties with Rus­sia, Zelen­sky was deter­mined to enforce the so-called Stein­meier For­mu­la con­ceived by then-Ger­man For­eign Min­is­ter Wal­ter Stein­meier which called for elec­tions in the Russ­ian-speak­ing regions of Donet­sk and Lugan­sk. 

In a face-to-face con­fronta­tion with mil­i­tants from the neo-Nazi Azov Bat­tal­ion who had launched a cam­paign to sab­o­tage the peace ini­tia­tive called “No to Capit­u­la­tion,” Zelen­sky encoun­tered a wall of obsti­na­cy. 

With appeals for dis­en­gage­ment from the front­lines firm­ly reject­ed, Zelen­sky melt­ed down on cam­era. “I’m the pres­i­dent of this coun­try. I’m 41 years old. I’m not a los­er. I came to you and told you: remove the weapons,” Zelen­sky implored the fight­ers.

Once video of the stormy con­fronta­tion spread across Ukrain­ian social media chan­nels, Zelen­sky became the tar­get of an angry back­lash.

Andriy Bilet­sky, the proud­ly fas­cist Azov Bat­tal­ion leader who once pledged to “lead the white races of the world in a final crusade…against Semi­te-led Unter­men­schen,” vowed to bring thou­sands of fight­ers to Zolote if Zelen­sky pressed any fur­ther. Mean­while, a par­lia­men­tar­i­an from the par­ty of for­mer Ukrain­ian Pres­i­dent Petro Poroshenko open­ly fan­ta­sized about Zelen­sky being blown to bits by a militant’s grenade. . . .

. . . . This Feb. 24, when Russ­ian Pres­i­dent Vladimir Putin sent troops into Ukrain­ian ter­ri­to­ry on a stat­ed mis­sion to “demil­i­ta­rize and denaz­i­fy” the coun­try, U.S. media embarked on a mis­sion of its own: to deny the pow­er of neo-Nazi para­mil­i­taries over the country’s mil­i­tary and polit­i­cal sphere. As the U.S. gov­ern­ment-fund­ed Nation­al Pub­lic Radio insist­ed, “Putin’s lan­guage [about denaz­i­fi­ca­tion] is offen­sive and fac­tu­al­ly wrong.”

In its bid to deflect from the influ­ence of Nazism in con­tem­po­rary Ukraine, U.S.  media has found its most effec­tive PR tool in the fig­ure of Zelen­sky, a for­mer TV star and come­di­an from a Jew­ish back­ground. It is a role the actor-turned-politi­cian has eager­ly assumed.

But as we will see, Zelen­sky has not only ced­ed ground to the neo-Nazis in his midst, he has entrust­ed them with a front line role in his country’s war against pro-Russ­ian and Russ­ian forces.

 Jew­ish­ness as West­ern Media PR Device 

Hours before Putin’s Feb. 24 speech declar­ing denaz­i­fi­ca­tion as the goal of Russ­ian oper­a­tions,  Zelen­sky “asked how a peo­ple who lost 8 mil­lion of its cit­i­zens fight­ing Nazis could sup­port Nazism,” accord­ing to the BBC.

Raised in a non-reli­gious Jew­ish fam­i­ly in the Sovi­et Union dur­ing the 1980s, Zelen­sky has down­played his her­itage in the past. “The fact that I am Jew­ish bare­ly makes 20 in my long list of faults,” he joked dur­ing a 2019 inter­view in which he declined to go into fur­ther detail about his reli­gious back­ground.

Today, as Russ­ian troops bear down on cities like Mar­i­upol, which is effec­tive­ly under the con­trol of the Azov Bat­tal­ion, Zelen­sky is no longer ashamed to broad­cast his Jew­ish­ness. “How could I be a Nazi?” he won­dered aloud dur­ing a pub­lic address. For a U.S. media engaged in an all-out infor­ma­tion war against Rus­sia, the president’s Jew­ish back­ground has become an essen­tial pub­lic rela­tions tool. 

A few exam­ples of the U.S. media’s deploy­ment of Zelen­sky as a shield against alle­ga­tions of ram­pant Nazism in Ukraine are below (see mash-up above for video): 

PBS New­sHour not­ed Putin’s com­ments on denaz­i­fi­ca­tion with a qual­i­fi­er: “even though Pres­i­dent Volodymyr Zelen­sky is Jew­ish and his great uncles died in the Holo­caust.”

On Fox & Friends, for­mer CIA offi­cer Dan Hoff­man declared that “it’s the height of hypocrisy to call the Ukrain­ian nation to denaz­i­fy — their pres­i­dent is Jew­ish after all.”

On MSNBC, Vir­ginia Demo­c­ra­t­ic Sen. Mark Warn­er said Putin’s “ter­mi­nol­o­gy, out­ra­geous and obnox­ious as it is — ‘denaz­i­fy’ where you’ve got frankly a Jew­ish pres­i­dent in Mr. Zelen­sky. This guy [Putin] is on his own kind of per­son­al jihad to restore greater Rus­sia.”

Repub­li­can Sen. Mar­sha Black­burn said on Fox Busi­ness she’s “been impressed with Pres­i­dent Zelen­sky and how he has stood up. And for Putin to go out there and say ‘we’re going to denaz­i­fy’ and Zelen­sky is Jew­ish.”

In an inter­view with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, Gen. John Allen denounced Putin’s use of the term, “de-Naz­i­fy” while the news­man and for­mer Israel lob­by­ist shook his head in dis­gust. In a sep­a­rate inter­view with Blitzer, the so-called “Ukraine whistle­blow­er” and Ukraine-born Alexan­der Vin­d­man grum­bled that the claim is “patent­ly absurd, there’s real­ly no mer­it… you point­ed out that Volodymyr Zelen­sky is Jew­ish… the Jew­ish com­mu­ni­ty [is] embraced. It’s cen­tral to the coun­try and there is noth­ing to this Nazi nar­ra­tive, this fas­cist nar­ra­tive. It’s fab­ri­cat­ed as a pre­text.”

Behind the cor­po­rate media spin lies the com­plex and increas­ing­ly close rela­tion­ship Zelensky’s admin­is­tra­tion has enjoyed with the neo-Nazi forces invest­ed with key mil­i­tary and polit­i­cal posts by the Ukrain­ian state, and the pow­er these open fas­cists have enjoyed since Wash­ing­ton installed a West­ern-aligned regime through a coup in 2014. 

In fact, Zelensky’s top finan­cial backer, the Ukrain­ian Jew­ish oli­garch Igor Kolo­moisky, has been a key bene­fac­tor of the neo-Nazi Azov Bat­tal­ion and oth­er extrem­ists mili­tias. . . .

Neo-Nazi Wave of intim­i­da­tion

. . . . Igor Kolo­moisky, a Ukrain­ian ener­gy baron of Jew­ish her­itage, has been a top fun­der of Azov since it was formed in 2014. He has also bankrolled pri­vate mili­tias like the Dnipro and Aidar Bat­tal­ions, and has deployed them as a per­son­al thug squad to pro­tect his finan­cial inter­ests.

In 2019, Kolo­moisky emerged as the top backer of Zelensky’s pres­i­den­tial bid. Though Zelen­sky made anti-cor­rup­tion the sig­na­ture issue of his cam­paign, the Pan­do­ra Papers exposed him and mem­bers of his inner cir­cle stash­ing large pay­ments from Kolo­moisky in a shad­owy web of off­shore accounts. 

When Zelen­sky took office in May 2019, the Azov Bat­tal­ion main­tained de fac­to con­trol of the strate­gic south­east­ern port city of Mar­i­upol and its sur­round­ing vil­lages. As Open Democ­ra­cy not­ed, “Azov has cer­tain­ly estab­lished polit­i­cal con­trol of the streets in Mar­i­upol. To main­tain this con­trol, they have to react vio­lent­ly, even if not offi­cial­ly, to any pub­lic event which diverges suf­fi­cient­ly from their polit­i­cal agen­da.”

Attacks by Azov in Mar­i­upol have includ­ed assaults on “fem­i­nists and lib­er­als” march­ing on Inter­na­tion­al Women’s Day among oth­er inci­dents.

In March 2019, mem­bers of the Azov Battalion’s Nation­al Corps attacked the home of Vik­tor Medved­chuk, the lead­ing oppo­si­tion fig­ure in Ukraine, accus­ing him of trea­son for his friend­ly rela­tions with Vladimir Putin, the god­fa­ther of Medvedchuk’s daugh­ter. 

Zelensky’s admin­is­tra­tion esca­lat­ed the attack on Medved­chuk, shut­ter­ing sev­er­al media out­lets he con­trolled in Feb­ru­ary 2021 with the open approval of the U.S.  State Depart­ment, and jail­ing the oppo­si­tion leader for trea­son three months lat­er. Zelen­sky jus­ti­fied his actions on the grounds that he need­ed to “fight against the dan­ger of Russ­ian aggres­sion in the infor­ma­tion are­na.”

Next, in August 2020, Azov’s Nation­al Corps opened fire on a bus con­tain­ing mem­bers of Medvedchuk’s par­ty, Patri­ots for Life, wound­ing sev­er­al with rub­ber-coat­ed steel bul­lets.

Zelen­sky Winds Up Col­lab­o­rat­ing

Fol­low­ing his failed attempt to demo­bi­lize neo-Nazi mil­i­tants in the town of Zolote in Octo­ber 2019, Zelen­sky called the fight­ers to the table, telling reporters “I met with vet­er­ans yes­ter­day. Every­one was there – the Nation­al Corps, Azov, and every­one else.”

A few seats away from the Jew­ish pres­i­dent was Yehven Karas, the leader of the neo-Nazi C14 gang.

Dur­ing the Maid­an “Rev­o­lu­tion of Dig­ni­ty” that oust­ed Ukraine’s elect­ed pres­i­dent in 2014, C14 activists took over Kiev’s city hall and plas­tered its walls with neo-Nazi insignia before tak­ing shel­ter in the Cana­di­an embassy.

As the for­mer youth wing of the ultra-nation­al­ist Svo­bo­da Par­ty, C14 appears to draw its name from the infa­mous 14 words of U.S.  neo-Nazi leader David Lane: “We must secure the exis­tence of our peo­ple and a future for white chil­dren.” . . .

By offer­ing to car­ry out acts of spec­tac­u­lar vio­lence on behalf of any­one will­ing to pay, the hooli­gans have fos­tered a cozy rela­tion­ship with var­i­ous gov­ern­ing bod­ies and pow­er­ful elites across Ukraine.

C14 neo-Nazi gang offers to car­ry out vio­lence-for-hire: “C14 works for you. Help us keep afloat, and we will help you. For reg­u­lar donors, we are open­ing a box for wish­es. Which of your ene­mies would you like to make life dif­fi­cult for? We’ll try to do that.”

A March 2018 report by Reuters stat­ed that “C14 and Kiev’s city gov­ern­ment recent­ly signed an agree­ment allow­ing C14 to estab­lish a ‘munic­i­pal guard’ to patrol the streets,” effec­tive­ly giv­ing them the sanc­tion of the state to car­ry out pogroms.

As The Gray­zone report­ed, C14 led raid to “purge” Romani from Kiev’s rail­way sta­tion in col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Kiev police.

Not only was this activ­i­ty sanc­tioned by the Kiev city gov­ern­ment, the U.S.  gov­ern­ment itself saw lit­tle prob­lem with it, host­ing Bon­dar at an offi­cial U.S.  gov­ern­ment insti­tu­tion in Kiev where he bragged about the pogroms. C14 con­tin­ued to receive state fund­ing through­out 2018 for “nation­al-patri­ot­ic edu­ca­tion.”

Karas has claimed that the Ukrain­ian Secu­ri­ty Serves would “pass on” infor­ma­tion regard­ing pro-sep­a­ratist ral­lies “not only [to] us, but also Azov, the Right Sec­tor and so on.”

“In gen­er­al, deputies of all fac­tions, the Nation­al Guard, the Secu­ri­ty Ser­vice of Ukraine and the Min­istry of Inter­nal Affairs work for us. You can joke like that,” Karas said.

Through­out 2019, Zelen­sky and his admin­is­tra­tion deep­ened their ties with ultra-nation­al­ist ele­ments across Ukraine.

Just days after Zelensky’s meet­ing with Karas and oth­er neo-Nazi lead­ers in Novem­ber 2019, Olek­siy Hon­charuk – then the prime min­is­ter and deputy head of Zelensky’s pres­i­den­tial office – appeared on stage at a neo-Nazi con­cert orga­nized by C14 fig­ure and accused mur­der­er Andriy Medved­ko.

Zelensky’s min­is­ter for vet­er­ans affairs not only attend­ed the con­cert, which fea­tured sev­er­al anti-Semit­ic met­al bands, she pro­mot­ed the con­cert on Face­book.

Also in 2019, Zelen­sky defend­ed Ukrain­ian foot­baller Roman Zolzulya against Span­ish fans taunt­ing him as a “Nazi.” Zolzulya had posed beside pho­tos of the World War II-era Nazi col­lab­o­ra­tor Stepan Ban­dera and open­ly sup­port­ed the Azov Bat­tal­ion. Zelen­sky respond­ed to the con­tro­ver­sy by pro­claim­ing that all of Ukraine backed Zolzulya, describ­ing him as “not only a cool foot­ball play­er but a true patri­ot.”

In Novem­ber 2021, one of Ukraine’s most promi­nent ultra-nation­al­ist mili­ti­a­men, Dmytro Yarosh, announced that he had been appoint­ed as an advis­er to the com­man­der-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Yarosh is an avowed fol­low­er of the Nazi col­lab­o­ra­tor Ban­dera who led Right Sec­tor from 2013 to 2015, vow­ing to lead the “de-Rus­si­fi­ca­tion” of Ukraine.

A month lat­er, as war with Rus­sia drew clos­er, Zelen­sky award­ed Right Sec­tor com­man­der Dmytro Kot­syubay­lo the “Hero of Ukraine” com­men­da­tion. Known as “Da Vin­ci,” Kosyubay­lo keeps a pet wolf in his front­line base, and likes to joke to vis­it­ing reporters that his fight­ers “feed it the bones of Russ­ian-speak­ing chil­dren.” . . .

‘If We Get killed…We Died Fight­ing a Holy War’

. . . . On Feb.27, the offi­cial Twit­ter account of the Nation­al Guard of Ukraine post­ed video of “Azov Fight­ers” greas­ing their bul­lets with pig fat to humil­i­ate Russ­ian Mus­lim fight­ers from Chech­nya.

A day lat­er, the Azov Battalion’s Nation­al Corps announced that the Azov Battalion’s Kharkiv Region­al Police would begin using the city’s Region­al State Admin­is­tra­tion build­ing as a defense head­quar­ters. Footage post­ed to Telegram the fol­low­ing day shows the Azov-occu­pied build­ing being hit by a Russ­ian airstrike.

Besides autho­riz­ing the release of hard­core crim­i­nals to join the bat­tle against Rus­sia, Zelen­sky has ordered all males of fight­ing age to remain in the coun­try. Azov mil­i­tants have pro­ceed­ed to enforce the pol­i­cy by bru­tal­iz­ing civil­ians attempt­ing to flee from the fight­ing around Mar­i­upol.  

Accord­ing to one Greek res­i­dent in Mar­i­upol recent­ly inter­viewed by a Greek news sta­tion, “When you try to leave you run the risk of run­ning into a patrol of the Ukrain­ian fas­cists, the Azov Bat­tal­ion,” he said, adding “they would kill me and are respon­si­ble for every­thing.”

Footage post­ed online appears to show uni­formed mem­bers of a fas­cist Ukrain­ian mili­tia in Mar­i­upol vio­lent­ly pulling flee­ing res­i­dents out of their vehi­cles at gun­point.

Oth­er video filmed at check­points around Mar­i­upol showed Azov fight­ers shoot­ing and killing civil­ians attempt­ing to flee. . . .

Discussion

One comment for “Zelensky and “The Jewish Question””

  1. Sean Penn often comes up in con­spir­a­cy the­o­ries on the Right, usu­al­ly relat­ed to his char­i­ty work in Haiti. These the­o­ries often include him being CIA. I have nev­er tak­en that stuff very seri­ous­ly, but I have to admit that Penn turns up in a lot of inter­est­ing places!

    1. He was tight with Hugo Chavez around the time Chavez got can­cer. His pol­i­tics have most­ly seemed pret­ty left, and he is tight with Oliv­er Stone. He has met with many world lead­ers that are on the outs with the US. It is the Stone con­nec­tion that made me gen­er­al­ly like him and cer­tain­ly threw me off of the path.

    2. He inter­viewed El Chapo right before the drug lord’s arrest, and some have accused him of being used in that oper­a­tion, whether know­ing­ly or unknow­ing­ly.

    https://apnews.com/article/f332c5795cc748b9936ecb67db3b33b9

    “As the world’s most hunt­ed man, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guz­man had to know the most sophis­ti­cat­ed infor­ma­tion and sur­veil­lance tech­nol­o­gy avail­able was mar­shalled against him: satel­lites, unmanned air­craft, NSA and DEA eaves­drop­pers, mal­ware-sow­ing Mex­i­can state hack­ers.

    Yet Guz­man may have let his guard down before receiv­ing Hol­ly­wood actors Sean Penn and Kate del Castil­lo three months ago on a remote cen­tral Mex­i­co moun­tain­top in appar­ent hopes of get­ting a biopic made to his lik­ing.

    Author­i­ties are not iden­ti­fy­ing what­ev­er infor­ma­tion secu­ri­ty mis­steps may have led to Guzman’s being recap­tured Fri­day in a sea­side town not far away.”

    3. Now Penn appears to have shown his true col­ors. Note that Oliv­er Stone is NOT on this team and held long inter­views with Putin that cov­er a lot of the stuff one would find on Spit­fire. How­ev­er, Penn, who should know bet­ter if he was what he claims to be, is full-on Team Zelen­sky! And, to top it off, he was in Ukraine before the war start­ed, film­ing a doc­u­men­tary. Here he is push­ing for fight­er jets to Ukraine.

    https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/sean-penn-united-states-poland-ukraine-jets-russia-war

    Sean Penn calls on US, Poland to sup­ply Ukraine with jets amid war

    By Lau­ryn Over­hultz

    Pub­lished March 09, 2022

    Fox News

    Sean Penn spoke with Ukrain­ian Pres­i­dent Volodymyr Zelen­skyy’s Chief of Staff Andriy Yer­mak on Wednes­day.

    Fol­low­ing the con­ver­sa­tion, the actor, who has been in Ukraine since the war with Rus­sia began, took to Twit­ter to weigh in on the coun­try’s need for jets.

    “I JUST got off a call with Pres­i­dent Zelensky’s Chief of staff, Andriy Yer­mak,” he wrote. “Some­where in the bureau­crat­ic chain between our White House & the Pol­ish Gov., the des­per­ate­ly NEEDED jets are not yet deliv­ered to Ukraine. Pub­lic out­cry may find the bot­tle­neck.”

    ...Ukrain­ian defense offi­cials for days have been ask­ing for help with sup­plies rang­ing from hel­mets to ammu­ni­tion and fight­er jets, a request that Poland appeared ready to ful­fill almost two weeks into Russia’s inva­sion of its small­er neigh­bor.

    Ear­li­er Tues­day, a bipar­ti­san group of U.S. law­mak­ers sent a let­ter to Pres­i­dent Biden urg­ing him to sup­port a deal with Poland.

    But Pen­ta­gon press sec­re­tary John Kir­by dis­tanced the U.S. from the pro­pos­al lat­er in the day, say­ing that while the deci­sion to hand over jets to Ukraine is in the hands of the Pol­ish gov­ern­ment, Amer­i­can involve­ment “rais­es seri­ous con­cerns for the entire NATO alliance.”

    He said the U.S. would con­tin­ue talks with Poland and the rest of NATO regard­ing the issue.

    For Pen­n’s part, the actor also shared an arti­cle Wednes­day pub­lished by The Tele­graph head­lined, “It is the world’s duty to do all we can to stop Vladimir Putin.”

    ...Penn “walked miles” to the bor­der of Poland Feb. 28 from Ukraine, where he has been film­ing a doc­u­men­tary about Rus­si­a’s inva­sion.

    The actor took to Twit­ter to share an update just days after it was revealed he was in Kyiv to film a doc­u­men­tary about the esca­lat­ing con­flict.

    “Myself & two col­leagues walked miles to the Pol­ish bor­der after aban­don­ing our car on the side of the road,” Penn revealed in a tweet.

    “Almost all the cars in this pho­to car­ry women & chil­dren only, most with­out any sign of lug­gage, and a car their only pos­ses­sion of val­ue,” he added.

    Posted by entropy | March 11, 2022, 11:18 am

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