Prince Harry, the youngest son of the U.K.’s King Charles III, arrived in Kyiv on Friday morning, according to The Guardian.
Harry was reportedly invited by the Ukrainian government to help support the rehabilitation of soldiers who have suffered serious injuries fighting against Russia’s invasion.
“We cannot stop the war but what we can do is do everything we can to help the recovery process,” he told The Guardian on an overnight train bound for Ukraine.
He explained that his initial invitation to Kyiv came from Olga Rudnieva, head of the Superhumans Trauma Centre in Lviv, which Harry visited during his first trip to Ukraine in April. According to him, they crossed paths by chance in the U.S. about two months ago:
I bumped into Olga in New York. It was a chance meeting and I asked her what I could do to help. She said ‘the biggest impact you have is coming to Kyiv’. I had to check with my wife and the British government to make sure it was OK. Then the official invitation came.
Harry had never been to Kyiv before. “In Lviv, you don’t see much of the war. It is so far west. This is the first time we will see the real destruction of the war,” he said.
During his visit to Kyiv, Harry will tour the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War. He’s also scheduled to meet with 200 veterans as well as with Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko.