Prince Harry visits Ukraine on surprise trip to offer help to soldiers injured in war
Prince Harry made a surprise visit to Kiev to commit the country’s support to Ukrainian soldiers who were wounded in the war against Russia.
The Duke of Sussex, who served in the British army for a decade, was invited by the Ukrainian government for saying that he said he aimed to do “everything that is possible için to help thousands of wounded military personnel. According to the European Disability Forum, as of February, 300,000 people remained disabled as a result of the war.
In addition to a team from the Invictus Games Foundation founded by Harry in 2014 to enable wounded veterans to participate in sports events, Duke will summarize new projects that will support the wounded in Kiev in rehabilitation. Initiatives are expected to be presented later.
The new Foreign Minister Yette Cooper will travel to Kiev on Friday, a move aiming to point to British’s determination to the nation where the war has shattered.
His visit comes after the Russian drones that violate the Poland airspace during the attacks on Ukraine were shot by Poland and NATO this week. In addition, since the war began, Russia has been following the largest air strike in Ukraine, an attack that hit an important government building for the first time in Kiev.
Harry’s surprise trip to the Ukrainian capital follows his four -day stay in England, while he saw his father for the first time in almost two years.
Duke told Guardian On a night on the train to Kiev: “We can’t stop the war, but we can do everything we can to help the healing process.”
“We can continue to humanize the people who are involved in this war and what they are going through. We must keep this in the forefront in the minds of people. I hope this trip helps him to bring him to people, because it is easy to be insensitive to what is going on.”
Harry visited the Diana Award at the center of London on Thursday morning for a final participation in the UK, where heard about the positive effects of social actions on the mental health of social actions.
In an improvised speech, Duke explained that people of all ages have tested their mental and emotional health every day and that young people can feel isolated when they “disappear from a group and leave”.
The Duke had previously expressed hopes of reconciliation with his family in the middle of the belief that they would never forgive him for public opinion.
With a movement that was seen as an important but uncertain step to repair the problematic relationship, Harry joined Charles for a special tea in the afternoon on Wednesday and spent 54 minutes at Clarence House with his father after 19 months of face to face.
But the Duke stays away from the Prince of Wales.
Once the closed brothers and sisters have long been going on for a long time, the couple does not show signs of healing with the fact that Harry did not meet during the stay.
However, Duke’s spokesman said he loved to return to England and to “catch up with old friends” and his colleagues.
Harry said he was Olga Rudnieva, the founder and CEO of the Superhumans Trauma Center in Lviv, who encouraged him to go to Kiev after visiting his center in April a few months ago.
Im I hit Olga in New York. It was a chance meeting and I asked what I could do to help him. ‘The biggest effect you had to come to Kyiv.
“You do not see most of the war in Lviv. So far the West. This is the first time we will see the real destruction of the war.”
Although Ukraine first competed in Biennial Invictus games in 2017, the conflict with Russia was more interested in the event and needed.
Harry recalled that the Ukrainian team was given in the Hague competition two years ago, Harry Guardian: “This was remarkable. Each of the participants made a journey to reach these games, but no one of the other rival nations did not return to the war. So the Ukrainians stood out. Everyone felt an enormous connection with them. Some competitors were withdrawn from the battlefield and they would come back to the battlefield.
The newspaper said that the Duke would be an intensive program on Friday, but the details have not yet been announced for security reasons. During his trip, Harry is also preparing to visit the National Museum of Ukraine during World War II, meet 200 gases, and look at Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko.
The Prince said that his stay in Kiev would spend time with veterans and witness the destruction from the first hand.
On Wednesday, Sussexes announced that he donated $ 500,000 ($ 369,000) to projects that support wounded children from the Aid Foundation Archaewell, Gaza and Ukraine.
The grants from Archewell will be used to help the World Health Organization through medical evacuation and finance the work that develops prosthesis for young people who are seriously injured in conflicts.
The announcement coincided with Harry’s visit to the Center for explosion injuries in the Imperial College London, where he heard more about children and their work focusing on the injuries in natural disasters.
