THE princevisited Britain a few days ago to pay tribute to Queen Elizabeth’s grandmother, but also to meet his father, King Charles. After visiting his hometown, Duke of Sussex, traveled unexpectedly to Ukraine who witnessed the situation with the Russian war continuing.
The purpose of Prince Harry’s visit to Kiev is to promote the work of the Invictus Games Foundation (IGF) and to honor the recovery and rehabilitation of thousands of veterans in Ukraine who have suffered serious injuries since the start of the war with Russia before.
Due to the large number of wounded, the Invictus Games Foundation has become increasingly well-known in Ukraine, and Harry-somewhat unexpectedly-has acquired a “legendary hero” regime.
Prince Harry has arrived in Ukraine for a surprise visit in support of wounded service members.
“We cannot stop the war but what we can do is do everything we can to help the recovery process,” he told reporters.
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The Guardian accompanied him on this journey and recorded the multifaceted personality of the Duke of Sussex.
According to the trek, he doesn’t like the photos, nor the cycling “I have bones in my butt,” he says. On the contrary, he likes boxing to break out – “to hit the sack with all my might,” he says, helps him relax.
In the public space he has a confident voice and charm with strangers, but when he is alone he speaks calmly, asks about people and politics and has his own views.
He is not, he says, the unhappy person who wants some media to present him. And he was told that he would like to spend more time in the UK.
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He never regretted publicly narrating his own side of the story. “My consciousness is clear,” he replies.
He could not be mentioned to his mother, Diana, but also to his father. If Invictus Games are his professional priority, it is clear that his father is personal.
Before leaving Kiev, Harry filled the aircraft with gifts from citizens according to the Guardian. He was almost embarrassed by his resonance, commenting that this might be due to his own military experience. When he was told that his attitude is reminiscent of Ukrainian who “does things in his own way,” he replied: “Do you know what he always did in her own way? My mother. “
But all this happens on the return to the United Kingdom. In Ukraine Harry’s attention was focused solely on what was going on there.
Its popularity in the Ukrainians is obvious. The injured wanted to talk to him, the mothers and the fathers of the injured and the dead wanted to shake his hand or hug him. They applauded and applauded him wherever he went, as well as his associates.
Harry and his team met on Friday morning at the World War II Museum with ministers and injured soldiers. “Rehabilitation and sport recovery did not exist before Invictus,” Deputy Minister of Foreign Minister Ruslan Prichodko told the Guardian.
His visit to Maidan Square was also moving, where he was found alone between photos, flowers and flags for the dead: “It is one of the most sad and more beautiful things I have seen,” he commented, adding that the war “could and should have been avoided”.
At the same time, he talked about his continued judicial dispute with publishing groups, including personalities such as Elton John. “This is not revenge, but accountability,” he said, noting that “there can be no reconciliation before there is truth.”