Mila Kunis shares that she felt a part of her heart “got ripped out” after the Russian invasion to Ukraine last month.
Kunis emigrated from Ukraine in 1991 when she was young, and quickly adapted, as she told Maria Shriver, becoming “LA through and through.” But during these times, her feelings ties for Ukraine, her homeland.
"I can’t express or explain what came over me but all of a sudden … I was like, 'Oh, my God, I feel like a part of my heart just got ripped out.' It was the weirdest feeling," Kunis said.
Kunis and Kutcher launched a GoFundMe campaign to help raise money to help Ukrainians, pledged to match up to $3 million in donations. The couple hopes to raise $30 million; as of Friday, they were over two-thirds coming on the way.
Kunis said to Shriver she doesn't want people to think of Russian citizens as the enemy. "I think that there's now, 'If you're not with us, you're against us' mentality. ... I don't think it’s the people of Russia and so, I don't want there to be a thing of, 'All Russians are horrible human beings.' I don’t want that to be the rhetoric," she continued. "So I do encourage people to look at it from a perspective of, 'It's the people in power, not the people themselves.'"
"This issue can get incredibly catastrophic for the rest of the world, not just for that part of the world, and I don’t want people to lose sight of that," Kunis upon urging the world that the war could have immense effects not just to Ukraine, but the rest of the world.
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