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 enactment of wounded Ukrainian soldiers, his representatives confirmed.

Harry volition sojourn the National Museum of the History of Ukraine successful World War II, walk clip with 200 veterans and conscionable Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko, according to home press.

“We cannot halt the warfare but what we tin bash is bash everything we tin to assistance the betterment process,” Harry told the Guardian portion connected an overnight bid to Kyiv.

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

The Archewell Foundation, acceptable 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 wealth volition beryllium utilized to assistance the World Health Organization with aesculapian evacuations and to money enactment processing prosthetics for earnestly injured young people.

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

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

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

Prince Harry's past travel to Ukraine included a sojourn to the Superhumans Centre, an orthopaedic session successful Lviv that treats wounded subject unit and civilians. The centre provides prosthetic limbs, reconstructive country and intelligence assistance escaped 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 the main Ukrainian authorities gathering was hit.

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