Orlando Bloom made a surprise trip to Kyiv, Ukraine over the weekend.

The actor, who was last in the country in 2016, visited a children's center and met with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as part of his work as a goodwill ambassador for UNICEF, the United Nations children's organization. Bloom shared a carousel of images of himself playing with a few of the kids on his Instagram account on Sunday, writing, “I would have never expected the war to have escalated throughout the country since I was there. But today I was fortunate to hear children's laughter at a @UNICEF supported Spilno center, a safe, warm and nurturing space for children to play, learn and receive psychosocial support. Spilno means 'together' in Ukrainian and there are over 180 of these centers here. The one I visited today was built deep down in the metro to ensure their safety. For a few hours every day, parents can drop off their young children and give them a sense of normalcy to play games and just be kids. There was also lots of art supplies and craft materials, which allows them to creatively express themselves, away from the pressures of growing up in a war zone. Children in Ukraine need their childhoods back.”

President Zelenskyy also shared a video of himself with the Pirates of the Caribbean star on Instagram. He wrote in the caption, "The war is destroying the childhood of Ukrainian children. Thousands of schools in Ukraine have been damaged or completely destroyed. Almost 2.7 million Ukrainian schoolchildren are forced to study online or in a mixed format. About 1.5 million Ukrainian boys and girls are at risk of developing depression, anxiety and other psychological problems. We all know what this aggression has brought and how full-scale the world’s efforts must be to stop it, to rebuild Ukraine after the war." He concluded, “During the meeting, we discussed humanitarian aid projects, issues of reconstruction focused specifically on the interests of children. @unicef and our teams will work in several directions, bring victory closer and return a happy childhood to Ukrainian children.”

And prior to arriving in Ukraine, Bloom also made another stop on his trip, visiting the Czech Republic to meet with President Petr Pavel. On Friday, the president shared on Instagram that he had “met with the UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador Orlando Bloom. We talked about the impact of the war in Ukraine on Ukrainian children.” Pavel went on to urge the actor to “please keep doing the important work you are doing in highlighting the terrible war atrocities committed against Ukrainian children by the Russian occupiers.”