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Mark Hamill

Mark Hamillis lending his voice in support of Ukraine.

Amid theongoing warin the country, theStar Warslegend, 71, can be heard on a Ukrainian air defense app urging people to take cover when Russia is attacking.

“Attention. Air raid alert,” Hamillsays on the downloadable app— called Air Alert — according to HuffPost UK. “Proceed to the nearest shelter.”

When air raid sirens start, the app also warns when Russian missiles, bombs and drones may be incoming.“Don’t be careless. Your overconfidence is your weakness,“Hamill says, according toLBC.

Hamill, who is voicing the English-language version of the air-raid app, also tells users when “the air alert is over.” He adds at the end of his address, according toLBC, “May the Force be with you.”

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Man takes a photo of himself holding his smartphone in Kyiv, Ukraine showing the “Air Alert” application which shows regions currently under Russian rocket attacks. When air raid alarms sound in Ukraine, they also trigger the “Air Alert” downloadable app that has been voiced by “Star Wars” actor Mark Hamill. With his gravely but also calming baritone, he urges people to take cover. He also tells them when the danger has passed, signing off with “May the Force be with you Russia War Mark Hamill, Kyiv, Ukraine - 27 Mar 2023

Opening up about hisdecision to lend his voice to the app, Hamill told the Associated Press he admired how Ukraine has “shown such resilience… under such terrible circumstances”.

He also said the country’s battle against Russia, which started in February 2022, reminds him of theStar Warssaga.

Man takes a photo of his smartphone in Kyiv, Ukraine showing the “Air Alert” application which shows regions currently under Russian rocket attacks. When air raid alarms sound in Ukraine, they also trigger the “Air Alert” downloadable app that has been voiced by “Star Wars” actor Mark Hamill. With his gravely but also calming baritone, he urges people to take cover. He also tells them when the danger has passed, signing off with “May the Force be with you Russia War Mark Hamill, Kyiv, Ukraine - 27 Mar 2023

Olena Yeremina, a 38-year-old business manager in Ukraine’s capital Kyiv, said Hamill’s “May the Force be with you” sign-off inspires her to keep going. “It’s a very cool phrase for this situation,” she said, according to the AP. “I wouldn’t say that I feel like a Ukrainian Jedi, but sometimes this phrase reminds me to straighten my shoulders and keep working.”

Hamill told Yahoothe drones are “the eyes in the sky — they monitor the border, they protect the people, they can transmit video in real time, and they’ve been proven to be highly effective.”

During the first year of the invasion, air raid alarm sirens sounded more than 19,000 times across the country, according to Ajax Systems — the Ukrainian security systems manufacturer that co-developed the app — and their chief marketing officer Valentine Hrytsenko, per HuffPost UK.

source: people.com