Mila Kunis, 38, spoke about how the war in Ukraine has affected her on a personal level. The actress, who has lived in the United States since she was a child, was born in the city of Chernivtsi, which is in Ukrainian territory – although at the time (1983) the country belonged to the extinct Soviet Union.
The actress said that where she came from had never made such a difference until now. “It was irrelevant to me that I came from Ukraine, it never mattered,” she said in an interview with journalist and former California first lady Maria Shriver, 66. “So much so that she always said she was Russian.”
“I always said ‘I’m from Russia’ for a multitude of reasons,” he explained. “One was that when I came to the United States and told people I was from Ukraine, the first question I heard was, ‘Where is Ukraine?’ And I had to explain where it was on the map… But if I said, ‘I’m from Russia,’ people would say, ‘Oh, we know this country’.”
Now, with the war, she insists on emphasizing that she is Ukrainian. “Everything has changed,” she confessed to her. “It’s a feeling of pride, and that doesn’t take away from the love for where I live now and everything this country has given me.”
It’s as if its roots have come out. “I can’t express what happened to me, but I suddenly thought, ‘Oh my God, I feel like a part of my heart has been ripped out,'” she said. “It was a really weird feeling. It doesn’t take away from who I am as a person, it just adds a whole different layer.”
She even spoke to children Wyatt, 7, and Dimitri, 5, both of whom are married to Ashton Kutcher, 44, about the matter. “I turned to my kids and thought, ‘You’re half Ukrainian, half American!'” she related. “And my kids were like, ‘Yes, Mom, I get it.’ And I was like, ‘No! You’re Ukrainian and American!’.”
Kunis also made a point of stressing that he has no problem with Russian citizens, and that there is a difference between the population and its rulers. “I don’t think we need to consider the people of Russia an enemy,” he said.
“I don’t think this is being said enough in the press,” he said. “It has a ‘if you’re not with us, you’re against us’ mentality. And I don’t want people to confuse the two problems that are going on. [o problema] be the people of Russia… I encourage people to look at this thinking that [a causa] It’s the people in power, not the people.”
Kunis and her husband created a page on the GoFundMe platform in search of humanitarian aid for Ukrainian refugees. Their goal is to raise US$30 million (R$ 152 million) – so far they have crossed the mark of US$ 20 million (R$ 101.5 million) in one week.
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