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It helps to do something - Liev Schreiber
Toby Luckhurst and Mariana Maglych in Lviv
Toby LuckhurstCopyright: Toby Luckhurst
The BBC's Toby Luckhurst (right) interviews Liev SchreiberImage caption: The BBC's Toby Luckhurst (right) interviews Liev Schreiber
Since the start of the war, volunteers have poured into Ukraine to help deliver aid and garner support for the war effort against the Russian invasion.
At a hotel in central Lviv I meet Hollywood actor Liev Schreiber - star of Spotlight (2015), which won an Academy Award for Best Picture.
He’s in the country with the NGO Blue Check Ukraine,
which works to give financial support to people in Ukraine.
He has already spent a week in a food kitchen in Poland, cooking up meals for refugees.
"Cut my finger pretty bad," he said, holding aloft his hand.
He says he decided to come after "about a month of depression sitting on the couch watching the news" about the war.
After talking to his children about what it means to live in a democracy and to have freedoms, he decided to put his money where his mouth is.
"It actually really helps to get off my ass and do something!"
Schreiber’s grandparents were Ukrainian, and he described the US as a nation of grandchildren. "Almost all of us are at some point grandchildren of immigrants", he said.
"I think we all need to step it up right now, and recognise that we are more related than we are not."
And his message to the Ukrainian people? "Slava Ukraini!" he says - Long Live Ukraine.
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