Protests broke out at the time after the Ukrainian Justice Ministry ruled that using the term to describe a Jewish person was legal, turning back a petition demanding that the offensive word be banned from the public sphere.

The student, who has dual Dutch/Canadian citizen, has a Bachelor’s degree in Politics and East European Studies from University College London (UCL) and a Masters in Science from the University of Oxford. 

The actress embraced America and in 2014, when speaking to the Star-Ledger, she even suggested she no longer identified with Ukraine after being asked about nation’s 2014 conflict, according to the Russian-backed separatist forces took over parts of southeastern Ukraine’s Donbas region during that year, and Russia annexed Crimea.

According to an online biography of the future royal, Sophie ‘has a keen interest in violence prevention and women’s human rights, themes on which she has conducted research in the Middle East and Caucasus, as well as a passion for efforts which help build global consensus and bridge voices of the Global North and South.

She told Harper’s Bazaar US magazine: ‘My shape is different. When I got down to 95 pounds, I was muscles, like a little brick house, but skin and bones. When I gained it back, it went to completely different areas.

Launching the GoFundMe page on Thursday, Kunis appeared alongside Kutcher in a video shared to his Instagram account, where she spoke publicly for the first time about the ‘devastating’ conflict in her native country.

Born Milena Markovna Kunis, Mila comes from a Jewish family and moved to Los Angeles from Ukraine, when she was seven years old, alongside her father Mark, a mechanical engineer, and mother Elvira, a physics teacher, and her brother Michael.  

‘I saw one man run across the yard towards the apartment block and a shell land next to him, which blew his leg off. We were afraid to help him in case we were killed and there were no ambulances.’ She does not know if he survived or not.

But aged only seven-years-old, her Jewish family fled the then Soviet Union state and travelled to the US, with Mila citing antisemitism as one of the reasons they left. Pictured, Mila with her mother and brother as a child in the US

Mila began dating her former That ’70s show co-star Ashton Kutcher (pictured together in 2021) in April 2012 and were engaged less than two years later. Mila and Ashton married in July 2015 in Oak Glen, California 

A mother later she landed a role in a Barbie doll commercial and by the time she was 14, the teenager, who attended Fairfax High School in LA, was starring in That ‘70s show, which aired in the US from 1998 to 2006.

They passed up to seven Russian checkpoints – where the invading soldiers let them pass after checking their documents, looking in their boot and inspecting Ivan’s hands and fingers carefully for any sign that he had been using firearms.

Mila began dating her former That ’70s show co-star Ashton Kutcher (pictured together in 2021) in April 2012 and were engaged less than two years later. Mila and Ashton married in July 2015 in Oak Glen, California 

She told Harper’s Bazaar US magazine: ‘My shape is different. When I got down to 95 pounds, I was muscles, like a little brick house, but skin and bones. When I gained it back, it went to completely different areas.

‘It was so scary. When the whole building is shaking and you have your child next to you and you don’t know if the next shell will land on your building… This is the terrible experience we all went through,’ she says.

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Some corpses were hastily covered with a thin layer of soil amid the shelling, while others were dumped in a mass grave dug in a nearby park – resulting in fears that many people will never discover the remains of their loved ones.

The actress embraced America and in 2014, when speaking to the Star-Ledger, she even suggested she no longer identified with Ukraine after being asked about nation’s 2014 conflict, according to the Russian-backed separatist forces took over parts of southeastern Ukraine’s Donbas region during that year, and Russia annexed Crimea.

‘We just wanted to give you a quick update as to where we stand with the fundraising. We’re halfway through. We’re super-excited, and we want to say thank you to each and every single one of you. It’s been an incredible past 48 hours.’

‘One of my friends who grew up in Russia, she was in second grade. She came home one day crying. Her mother asked why and she said on the back of her seat there was a swastika. This is a country that obviously does not want you.’ 

‘One of my friends who grew up in Russia, she was in second grade. She came home one day crying. Her mother asked why and she said on the back of her seat there was a swastika. This is a country that obviously does not want you.’