This week she visited Ukrainian families in Mykolaiv and Kherson who live near the front lines. At one point she had to stop and wait out a drone flying overhead.
"...for me it was just a couple of days. The families here live with this every single day," Jolie writes.
Schools and healthcare have moved to underground facilities, she notes, and wonders why people are forced to suffer daily "in a world with such a strong capacity for diplomacy"?
In the city of Kherson, there are Russian posts on the other side of the river, and the city is often subjected to shelling from Russian troops, writes Kyiv Independent .
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