Leonardo DiCaprio donates $10 million to his grandmother's homeland Ukraine
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Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio has donated $10 million to support Ukraine, which is fighting against Russia.
NEW DELHI: Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio has donated $10 million to support Ukraine, which is fighting against Russia.
DiCaprio also has a personal motive. The actor's maternal grandmother, Helene Indenbirken, was born in Odessa as Jelena Stepanovna Smirnova, reports polishnews.co.uk.
In 1917, she emigrated from there with her parents to Germany, where DiCaprio's mother was born.
Raised mainly by his mother DiCaprio, he was also very close to his grandmother, who was a supporter of his career from the beginning.
His grandmother, who died in 2008 at the age of 93, almost until the end appeared with her grandson and daughter at the premieres of his films, which is reminiscent of the American industry media on the occasion of generous support for Ukraine.
