Sean Penn took to Twitter on February 28 to update his followers on the increasingly dire situation in Ukraine. “Myself & two colleagues walked miles to the Polish border after abandoning our car on the side of the road. Almost all the cars in this photo carry women & children only, most without any sign of luggage, and a car their only possession of value,” he penned alongside a photo of himself dragging a taped up suitcase behind him with a long line of the aforementioned cars in the background.
Shortly after Penn gave the update many offered up words of support and encouragement to the director. “@SeanPenn literally ‘walks the walk’…I’ll refresh everyone’s memory also that he literally flew to NOLA and was rescuing people in a canoe after Hurricane Katrina,” one user tweeted. Meanwhile, another wrote, “Can’t wait to see your documentary. At first, it sounded silly to me that you were there but then I realized you are going to give the people a platform to express their experience. We need an honest resource from the ground. Stay safe.”
