A recording of Jessica Chastain from a “life changing” trip to Ukraine

Jessica Chastain shared on Thursday footage of her humanitarian trip to Ukraine after visiting a war-ravaged but tireless country in early August.

“I needed a few weeks to process everything I saw from my trip to Kiev”, actress, 45, he wrote in a tweet preceding the roughly 1-minute editing.

“We landed in Poland, traveled 4 hours, and then boarded the train for another 11. I was nervous and the length of the journey gave me time to calm down,” she added about the complicated logistics of the trip.

The film starts with Chastain driving in Kiev in a car with an invisible companion as he reads aloud a series of war statistics from his phone: “So the number of refugees from Ukraine now stands at 5.1 million who have left for the countries of the European Union. And another 7.7 million internally displaced people. The population of Ukraine before the world was 44 million, ”he says.

While she talks, the footage changes to reveal that they are driving through entire city blocks ravaged by Russian bombing.

“War crimes killed 6,710 civilians, including 359 children. 8,741 civilians, including 700 children, were injured, ”he continues in the language teachers.

Finally the car pulls up to Ohmatdytwhich is taken into account the largest children’s hospital in Ukraine and continued to operate for more than six months after the end of the war. (Information on how to make a donation to a hospital can be found here.)

Chastain wrote about the visit in another tweet“One of the experiences of this life-changing journey was my visit to the Children’s Hospital: Ohmatdyt. I had the opportunity to meet amazing children and the director Volodymyr Żownia. The children amazed me with their hope and strength. “

AND reading the third and last tweet: “Many were displaced from their homes and spent months in hospital. This is a huge humanitarian crisis in Ukraine. We cannot forget the innocent who are perpetrated by senseless acts of violence. I am grateful to have met these sweet little children with big, brave hearts. “

In the film, the actress “Zero Dark Thirty” visits several children, one of whom gives her a drawing of a bicycle with a basket filled with 3D flowers made of construction paper.

The footage ends with Chastain holding the artwork on his lap as her car drives away.

During the trip, Chastain also met with the President of Ukraine, Volodymyr Zelensky, which stimulated and inspired both the country’s citizens and international observers refusing to offer evacuation after Russia’s invasion of his people in February 2022.

Zelenskiy has since remained on the front line in the fight against the Russian invasion of Ukraine and regularly posts updates on his Twitter.