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Prince Harry has made a surprise visit to Kyiv, after an invitation by an organisation that supports Ukrainians with life-changing injuries caused by the war.<\/p>\n
The Duke of Sussex said he wanted to do “everything possible” to help the recovery of injured military personnel.<\/p>\n
He arrived by train on Friday morning and <\/b>is understood to have a busy schedule for the day, but no official details can be expected until this evening.<\/b><\/p>\n
The Guardian newspaper reports<\/a> that he will outline new plans to help rehabilitate the wounded during the trip.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Superhumans, which helps provide those injured with prosthetic limbs and rehabilitation, told the BBC that it invited Prince Harry to Ukraine.<\/p>\n Founder Olha Rudnieva greeted the prince off the train with a hug, a video released by Ukrainian Railways showed. <\/p>\n She handed the prince a podstakannik \u2013 a silver holder for a glass used to drink tea, traditionally provided on night trains across Ukraine.<\/p>\n Harry visited a centre<\/a> run by the organisation in Lviv in April, but this is his first visit to the capital.<\/p>\n There are tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians with amputations as a result of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine \u2013 numbers vary, as Ukraine doesn’t give precise statistics on military casualties.<\/p>\n Ahead of Friday’s visit, the prince told the Guardian: “We cannot stop the war but what we can do is do everything we can to help the recovery process.”<\/p>\n “We can continue to humanise the people involved in this war and what they are going through.”<\/p>\n The paper reports Prince Harry is joined by a team from his Invictus Games Foundation – which he launched in 2014 for wounded veterans to compete in sports events.<\/p>\n A team from Ukraine was given special permission to compete in the games by President Zelensky in 2022, just months after the war began.<\/p>\n During the opening ceremony, the prince said the world was “united”<\/a> with the country.<\/p>\n Friday’s visit comes after the Sussex’s charitable foundation Archewell said on Wednesday that it had donated $500,000 (\u00a3369,000) to projects supporting injured children from Ukraine and Gaza.<\/p>\n It said the grants would be used to help the World Health Organization with medical evacuations, and to fund work developing prosthetics for young people.<\/p>\n Other members of the Royal Family have expressed support for Ukraine since the start of the war more than three years ago.<\/p>\n The King welcomed Zelensky to his Sandringham estate in Norfolk in March, having previously said the country had faced “indescribable aggression” from Russia.<\/p>\n The Prince of Wales, Harry’s brother, met Ukrainian refugees<\/a> during a two-day visit to Estonia in March – where he said their resilience was “amazing”.<\/p>\n His trip to Ukraine comes after he met his father King Charles in London on Wednesday, their first face-to-face meeting since February 2024.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n