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Jean-Michel Shcherbak, a Russian actor and model, is contesting his country’s version of the events in Ukraine by sharing photos and videos from the ground of Russian onslaught -- forwarded to him by his Ukrainian friends.“When the Russian army says it doesn’t attack properties, I post (videos and photos) of destroyed areas,” he told CNN in an interview.
Shcherbak has visited Ukraine in the past and still cannot believe the horror that is unfolding there.
He has become a trusted voice for Ukraine but his advocacy has come at a cost: a strained relationship with his mother.
Shcherbak is now in Germany. Before he left Russia, he had written a letter to his mother and sent some money. What she told him in response was shattering.
“I don't communicate with Russophobes and traitors to the Motherland," she said, according to Business Insider’s translation of her text messages to Shcherbak, which he shared on his Instagram page. "I sincerely wish you would give up your Russian passport and leave this country in any direction. You are no longer my son. There will be no traitors in my family."
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