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Prince Harry has made a surprise visit to Kyiv under the invitation of an organisation assisting Ukrainians with life-changing injuries caused by the war.
The Duke of Sussex said he wanted to do “everything possible” to help the recovery of injured military personnel.
He arrived by train on Friday morning and is understood to have an interesting schedule lined up for the day but no official information is forthcoming until this evening.
According to the reports from The Guardian, he will announce new plans during the visit for the rehabilitation of the wounded.
Superhumans assists in rehabilitating those injured with prosthetic limbs and confirmed its invitation to Prince Harry to go to Ukraine.
He visited a centre run by the organisation at Lviv in April, but this is his first visit to the capital.
Right now, there are tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians with amputations as a result of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine – numbers varying, with Ukraine refusing to issue exact figures about its military casualties.
Prior to the visit on Friday, the prince expressed to the Guardian: “We cannot stop the war but what we can do is do everything we can to help the recovery process. We can continue to humanise the people involved in this war and what they are going through.”
t was alleged by some papers that Prince Harry was accompanied by a contingent from the Invictus Games Foundation he set up back in 2014 for wounded veterans to take part in sporting competitions.
The visit on Friday follows Archewell, the Sussexes’ charity, announcing on Wednesday the grant of $500,000 (£369,000) to projects supporting injured children from Ukraine and Gaza.
The charity specified that these grants would assist the World Health Organization in medical evacuations and developments in prosthetics for young people.
More members of the Royal Family have spoken for Ukraine since the start of the war more than three years ago.
The King, in March, hosted Zelensky at his Sandringham estate in Norfolk, having said earlier that the country had seen “indescribable aggression” from Russia.
In Estonia during March, the Prince of Wales, the Brother of Prince Harry, paid visits to Ukrainian refugees for two days, where he termed their resilience as” amazing.”
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