Hollywood actor Ben Stiller has said there is “lies coming from Russian media” and he has denied reports on social media that the US Agency for International Development (USAID) funded this trip to Kyiv.
Stiller wrote on X, “I completely self-funded my humanitarian trip to Ukraine. There was no funding from USAID and certainly no payment of any kind.”
The Hollywood actor added, these claims were “100 percent false.”
This comes after Elon Musk reposted a story on X which suggests that USAID had financed Stiller’s trip to Ukraine.
Stiller is a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and during his trip he met with families who have been affected by Vladimir Putin’s war in Ukraine.
Ukraine‘s Center for Countering Disinformation said, “Accordingly, the information it broadcasts is an invention of Russian fake newsmakers.”
These are lies coming from Russian media. I completely self-funded my humanitarian trip to Ukraine. There was no funding from USAID and certainly no payment of any kind.
💯 percent false. https://t.co/EFBPmrFQJ6
— Ben Stiller (@BenStiller) February 5, 2025
The Russian Foreign Ministry slapped sanctions on Hollywood stars Sean Penn and Ben Stiller along with 25 other US citizens for criticising the war in Ukraine.
The new sanctions list includes politicians, industrial executives and trade officials who are all banned from entering Russia.
In June 2022 Meet the Parents star Stiller visited President Volodymy Zelensky criticising Putin’s war in Ukraine.
Penn who is a two time Oscar winner was forced to flee Ukraine on foot when the war started in February as he was filming a documentary on 24 February in the so called “special military operation” started.
Penn visited the town of Bucha with President Zelenksy where Russian troops killed hundreds of Ukrainian civilians and dumped them into a mass grave.
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