Prince Harry visits Kyiv to support wounded Ukrainian soldiers

By&nbspEuronews

Published on 12/09/2025 - 13:16 GMT+2

The UK’s Prince Harry arrived successful Kyiv connected Friday for a astonishment sojourn successful support of wounded Ukrainian soldiers, his representatives confirmed.

Harry will sojourn nan National Museum of nan History of Ukraine successful World War II, walk clip pinch 200 veterans and meet Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko, according to home press.

“We cannot extremity nan warfare but what we tin do is do everything we tin to thief nan betterment process,” Harry told nan Guardian while connected an overnight train to Kyiv.

Harry, a British Army seasoned who served successful Afghanistan, is nan laminitis of nan Invictus Games, a Paralympic-style arena designed to animate subject veterans astir nan world arsenic they activity to flooded battlefield injuries. Ukraine is bidding to big nan games successful 2029.

The Archewell Foundation, group up by Harry and his wife, Meghan, announced this week that it had donated $500,000 (€426.135) to projects supporting injured children from Gaza and Ukraine.

The money will beryllium utilized to thief nan World Health Organization pinch aesculapian evacuations and to money activity processing prosthetics for earnestly injured young people.

This is nan 2nd clip Harry has visited Ukraine since nan commencement of Russia’s full-scale penetration successful early 2022, aft he made a travel to nan occidental metropolis of Lviv successful April.

His sojourn coincided pinch a travel to Ukraine by UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper, who announced a caller group of UK sanctions targeting Russia’s lipid revenues and subject supplies.

Cooper said nan sojourn is simply a show of solidarity pinch Ukrainians facing intensified battle from Russia – including 6,500 drones and missiles successful July, 10 times nan level of a twelvemonth ago.

Prince Harry's past travel to Ukraine included a sojourn to nan Superhumans Centre, an orthopaedic session successful Lviv that treats wounded subject unit and civilians. The centre provides prosthetic limbs, reconstructive room and psychological thief free of charge.

Harry’s sojourn connected Friday comes arsenic Russia escalates its all-out warfare against Ukraine.

It is little than a week aft Russia’s astir important aerial onslaught connected Ukraine since its all-out penetration began much than 3 years agone — an onslaught successful which nan main Ukrainian authorities building was hit.

It besides comes conscionable days aft galore Russian drones entered nan airspace of NATO personnel Poland — nan state Harry travelled done to scope Ukraine.