Angelina Jolie Made A Surprise Visit To Kharkiv

• 8.09.2026, 9:10

The actress visited a boxing club with her son.

Renowned American actress Angelina Jolie, who actively supports Ukraine in its fight against Russian occupiers, arrived in Kharkiv and visited the Spadkoyemets boxing club there.

She reported this on her account at Facebook account.

According to the Ukrainian Boxing Federation, Jolie was accompanied by her son Knox when she visited the Spadkoyemets boxing club in Kharkiv. Together with fighters from the Ukrainian Defense Forces, he participated in a Muay Thai training session. The Spadkoyemets club clarified that Angelina Jolie visited them “entirely by chance.”

The club’s boxers thanked the American actress for her compassion and for taking an interest in the history of their gym. Angelina Jolie has visited Ukraine several times during the war on humanitarian missions.

For example, in November 2025, the Hollywood star visited Kherson as part of a charitable program to aid victims of Russian aggression. There, she visited local medical facilities, spoke with doctors and patients, spent time with children, and expressed her support for the residents of the region, which regularly suffers from shelling by the Russian Federation’s occupying army.