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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Clémence Michallon

Mila Kunis left Ukraine for the US as a child. Now she’s helping Ukrainian refugees

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When actor Mila Kunis was seven, her family left Ukraine, her native country, and moved to the US.

“It was right at the fall [of the Soviet Union],” Kunis, who has now started a fundraiser to support Ukrainian refugees, told the Los Angeles Times in 2008. “It was very communist, and my parents wanted my brother and me to have a future, and so they just dropped everything. They came with $250.”

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