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Actor Sean Penn wants US to help rescue Ukraine from Russian invasion

Actor Sean Penn, left, Mayor Eric Garcetti and Gov. Gavin Newsom greet each other at a news conference at the launch of mass COVID-19 vaccination site at Dodger Stadium on Jan. 15, 2021, in Los Angeles. Penn is in wartorn Ukraine now filming a documentary and asking the United States to help fight the Russian incursion.

Actor Sean Penn, who is in Ukraine working on a film documentary, is encouraging the U.S. to come to the rescue of the beleaguered country, which is fighting to preserve its democracy amid a devastating invasion from neighboring Russia.

“Ukraine is the tip of the spear for the democratic embrace of dreams. If we allow it to fight alone,

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