Mila Kunis, Ashton Kutcher to match up to $3M in donations to Ukraine refugees
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By Michelle Ewing, Cox Media Group National Content Desk
Celebrity couple Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher have announced that they will match as much as $3 million in donations to a fundraiser for people fleeing Ukraine during Russia’s ongoing invasion of the country.
According to People magazine and CNN, the 38-year-old “Black Swan” actress, who was born in Ukraine but has lived in the United States since 1991, and Kutcher, 44, took to social media Thursday to unveil their “Stand With Ukraine” GoFundMe campaign benefiting Flexport.org and Airbnb.org.
“While we are witnessing the bravery of Ukrainians, we are also bearing witness to the unimaginable burden of those who have chosen safety,” Kunis wrote on the GoFundMe page. “Countless amounts of people have left everything they know and love behind to seek refuge. With nothing but what they could carry, these Ukrainian refugees are in need of housing and supplies right away.”
Kunis wrote that Flexport.org “is organizing shipments of relief supplies to refugee sites in Poland, Romania, Hungary, Slovakia and Moldova,” while Airbnb.org “is providing free, short-term housing to refugees fleeing Ukraine.”
By early Friday, the campaign had raised more than $3.1 million toward its $30 million goal, according to the GoFundMe page.
The news came just days after Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively pledged to match $1 million in donations benefiting Ukrainian refugees.
Photos: Russian invasion into Ukraine enters ninth day Displaced people gather around a bonfire outside Lviv railway station, in Lviv, western Ukraine, Friday, March 4, 2022. (Felipe Dana/AP)
Photos: Russian invasion into Ukraine enters ninth day A helper holds baby Tuvia from an orphanage in Odesa, Ukraine, at a hotel in Berlin, Friday, March 4, 2022. More than 100 Jewish refugee children who were evacuated from a foster care home in war-torn Ukraine and made their way across Europe by bus have arrived in Berlin. (Steffi Loos/AP)
Photos: Russian invasion into Ukraine enters ninth day A firefighter helps refugees fleeing the conflict from neighbouring Ukraine at the Romanian-Ukrainian border, in Siret, Romania, Friday, March 4, 2022. The number of refugees who have fled Ukraine has now reached 1.2 million, the International Organization for Migration said Friday. This could become the "biggest refugee crisis this century," the U.N. has said, predicting that as many as 4 million people could leave. (Andreea Alexandru/AP)
Photos: Russian invasion into Ukraine enters ninth day Workers wrap protective materials around a statue in Lviv, western Ukraine, Friday, March 4, 2022. In order to preserve ancient sculptures in the city center and stained glass windows in churches from bombs, they are packed in special cocoons to protect them. Stained-glass windows in churches are covered with chipboard. (Pavlo Palamarchuk/AP)
Photos: Russian invasion into Ukraine enters ninth day Ukrainians receive CPR and first aid training at a cinema in Lviv, western Ukraine, Friday, March 4, 2022. (Felipe Dana/AP)
Photos: Russian invasion into Ukraine enters ninth day People fleeing Ukraine wait in line to enter Poland through the border crossing Korczowa, Poland, Friday, March 4, 2022. More than 1 million people have fled Ukraine following Russia's invasion in the swiftest refugee exodus in this century, the United Nations said Thursday. (Visar Kryeziu/AP)
Photos: Russian invasion into Ukraine enters ninth day A man takes a photo of the remains of a missile in a street in Vydubychi district of Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 4, 2022. Russia's war on Ukraine is now in its ninth day and Russian forces have shelled Europe's largest nuclear power plant, sparking a fire there that was extinguished overnight. (Andriy Dubchak/AP)
Photos: Russian invasion into Ukraine enters ninth day An apartment building damaged following a shelling on the town of Irpin, 26 kilometers west of Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 4, 2022. (Oleksandr Ratushniak/AP)
Photos: Russian invasion into Ukraine enters ninth day A burnt car stands next to the remains of the local house of culture following a night air raid in the village of Byshiv, 40 kilometers west of Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 4, 2022. Russia's war on Ukraine is now in its ninth day and Russian forces have shelled Europe's largest nuclear power plant, sparking a fire there that was extinguished overnight. (Efrem Lukatsky/AP)
Photos: Russian invasion into Ukraine enters ninth day A child fleeing Ukraine looks through the window of a bus at the border crossing in Palanca, Moldova, Friday, March 4, 2022. More than 1 million people have fled Ukraine following Russia's invasion in the swiftest refugee exodus in this century, the United Nations said Thursday. (Aurel Obreja/AP)
Photos: Russian invasion into Ukraine enters ninth day A local resident walks past the remains of a house of culture following a night air raid in the village of Byshiv, 40 kilometres west of Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 4, 2022. Russia's war on Ukraine is now in its ninth day and Russian forces have shelled Europe's largest nuclear power plant, sparking a fire there that was extinguished overnight. (Efrem Lukatsky/AP)
Photos: Russian invasion into Ukraine enters ninth day A house is on fire following shelling on the town of Irpin, 26 kilometers west of Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 4, 2022. Russia's war on Ukraine is now in its ninth day and Russian forces have shelled Europe's largest nuclear power plant, sparking a fire there that was extinguished overnight. (Oleksandr Ratushniak/AP)
Photos: Russian invasion into Ukraine enters ninth day Dmytro cries next to the grave of his father Volodymyr Nezhenets, 54, during his funeral in the city of Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 4, 2022. A small group of reservists are burying their comrade, 54-year-old Volodymyr Nezhenets, who was one of three killed on Feb. 26 in an ambush Ukrainian authorities say was caused by Russian 'saboteurs'. (Emilio Morenatti/AP)
Photos: Russian invasion into Ukraine enters ninth day A destroyed armored personnel carrier stands in the central square of the town of Makariv, 60 kilometres west of Kyiv, Ukraine, after a heavy night battle Friday, March 4, 2022. (Efrem Lukatsky/AP)
Photos: Russian invasion into Ukraine enters ninth day People fleeing Ukraine gather at the border crossing in Palanca, Moldova, Friday, March 4, 2022. More than 1 million people have fled Ukraine following Russia's invasion in the swiftest refugee exodus in this century, the United Nations said Thursday. (Aurel Obreja/AP)
Photos: Russian invasion into Ukraine enters ninth day This image made from a video released by Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant shows bright flaring object landing in grounds of the nuclear plant in Enerhodar, Ukraine, Friday, March 4, 2022. (Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant via AP)
Photos: Russian invasion into Ukraine enters ninth day This image made from a video released by Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant shows bright flaring object landing in grounds of the nuclear plant in Enerhodar, Ukraine, Friday, March 4, 2022. (Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant via AP)
Photos: Russian invasion into Ukraine enters ninth day U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, left, and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg participate in a press statement prior to an extraordinary NATO foreign ministers meeting at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Friday, March 4, 2022. (Olivier Douliery, Pool Photo via AP)
Photos: Russian invasion into Ukraine enters ninth day "Hello, we will help you" is written on a large display board at the refugee collection center in Mlyny, a former shopping center just a few kilometers from the Ukrainian-Polish border in Korczowa, on March 4, 2022. (Kay Nietfeld/picture alliance via Getty Images)
Photos: Russian invasion into Ukraine enters ninth day Refugees board the train to Berlin at the Przemysl, Poland, station near the Ukrainian-Polish border in the morning of March 4, 2022. (Kay Nietfeld/picture alliance via Getty Images)
Photos: Russian invasion into Ukraine enters ninth day Refugees coming from Ukraine arrive at the North Railway Station in Bucharest, Romania, early March 4, 2022. (MIHAI BARBU/AFP via Getty Images)
Photos: Russian invasion into Ukraine enters ninth day Numerous people get off the train from Kyiv at the Przemysl, Poland, station near the Ukrainian-Polish border in the early morning of March 4, 2022. (Kay Nietfeld/picture alliance via Getty Images)
Photos: Russian invasion into Ukraine enters ninth day A Polish soldier carries a child at the Przemysl, Poland, train station near the Ukrainian-Polish border in the early morning of March 4, 2022, after arriving by train from Kyiv. (Kay Nietfeld/picture alliance via Getty Images)
Photos: Russian invasion into Ukraine enters ninth day After arriving by train from Kyiv, refugees stand at passport control at the Przemysl, Poland, train station near the Ukrainian-Polish border in the early morning of March 4, 2022. (Kay Nietfeld/picture alliance via Getty Images)
Photos: Russian invasion into Ukraine enters ninth day NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, right, and U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken prepare to make a statement prior to an extraordinary NATO foreign ministers meeting at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Friday, March 4, 2022. (Yves Herman, Pool Photo via AP)