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Angelina Jolie met with refugees and volunteers during a surprise visit to Lviv

The actress and U.N. Special Envoy for refugees spoke with recent evacuees arriving by train in the western Ukraine city, as well as children being treated for injuries from a recent Russian attack.

American actress and humanitarian Angelina Jolie made a surprise visit to the western Ukrainian city of Lviv this weekend, where she met with people displaced by the war and visited some of the facilities and organizations that are busy helping them.

Jolie has been for refugees for a decade. However, a spokesperson for the U.N. refugee agency said that and that she traveled to Ukraine "in her personal capacity."

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