While making a surprise visit to the capital city of Kyiv after being invited by an organisation that supports Ukrainians with life-changing injuries caused by the war, Prince Harry of the United Kingdom vows to help those injured. The Duke of Sussex said that he wanted to do everything possible to help the recovery process. Superhumans, the organisation currently providing assistance to those injured with prosthetic limbs and rehabilitation, confirmed to the international media that they invited Prince Harry to Ukraine.
Prince Harry arrived in Kyiv by train on Friday morning and has a very busy schedule for the day. There is no official detail about his schedule, even though the international media reports that he will outline new plans to help rehabilitation of the wounded during his visit. Prince Harry is expected to go to the centre run by the organisation in Lviv in April, and this is his first visit to the capital.
Several soldiers and civilians with amputations after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine currently require help and assistance on the medical and financial front. The numbers of those affected vary, as Ukraine doesn’t give precise statistics on military casualties.
“We cannot stop the war, but what we can do is 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,” said Prince Harry ahead of Friday’s visit to the international media. Media also reports that Prince Harry joined a team from his Invictus Games Foundation, an organisation launched in 2014 for wounded veterans to compete in sporting events. A team from Ukraine was given special permission to compete in those games by President Zelenskyy in the year 2022, just months after the war began between the two nations, during the opening ceremony. Prince Harry said that the world was united with the country.
NGOs Assisting War Victims
The current visit of Prince Harry comes after the Sussex charitable foundation, Archewell, reportedly donated $500,000 to projects supporting injured children from Ukraine and Gaza. According to reports, these grants will be used to help the World Health Organisation with medical evacuation and fund work developing prosthetics for younger people.
Parallely, other members of the royal family have also expressed their support for Ukraine not recently, but since the start of the war more than three years ago. The Prince of Wales, Harry’s brother, met Ukrainian refugees during his two-day visit to Estonia in the month of March. Now, this Friday’s visit to Ukraine comes after Prince Harry met his father King Charles in London on Wednesday, their first face-to-face meeting since February 2024.