Angelina Jolie ‘Consumed by Guilt’ Over Bodyguard Being ‘Kidnapped’ by Ukraine Army and Forced Into War — ‘She Thinks It’s All Her Fault’
Angelina Jolie is “devastated and guilt-ridden” after her Ukrainian bodyguard was detained by the army and conscripted into military service during her humanitarian visit to the war-torn country.
Sources close to the Hollywood star, 50, say she believes her presence may have inadvertently triggered the incident – with one insider calling it “a nightmare she can’t stop replaying.”
Jolie was traveling through southern Ukraine on November 5 as part of a UNICEF mission when her security escort, 33-year-old Dmytro Pyshchikov, was stopped at a military checkpoint in Pivdennoukrainsk.
Guards discovered he had no valid exemption from service and ordered him to the local Territorial Recruitment Center in Voznesensk, Mykolaiv region – the department overseeing enlistment for the ongoing defense against Russian forces.
His family has not heard from him since. (Read more from “Angelina Jolie ‘Consumed by Guilt’ Over Bodyguard Being ‘Kidnapped’ by Ukraine Army and Forced Into War — ‘She Thinks It’s All Her Fault’” HERE)
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