The founder of the international competition for wounded military personnel personally visited the qualifying rounds in the Ukrainian city. This is not the first visit by a member of the British royal family to Ukraine since the start of the full-scale war.
As reported by the publication "Ukrainska Pravda," citing the head of the Lviv Regional Military Administration Maksym Kozytskyi, British Prince Harry arrived in Lviv for the All-Ukrainian Invictus Games. The member of the royal family personally supported Ukrainian defenders during the wheelchair rugby competition. It was he who founded the international Invictus Games in 2014 for the rehabilitation and socialization of veterans wounded on the battlefield.
This year, around 500 participants from across Ukraine registered for the qualifying games in Lviv. Based on the results of the current competitions, the organizers will form a national team of 60 veterans and active-duty service members. In 2027, they will represent the country at the international Invictus Games in Birmingham, UK.
Prince Harry's current visit to Ukraine is not his first this year. In the spring, on April 24, 2026, he had already visited the country to participate in the Kyiv Security Forum. During his address at the event, the British prince directly called on the United States of America, as one of the guarantors of the Budapest Memorandum, to demonstrate leadership in military and financial support for Ukraine.
As part of the April trip, he also visited the town of Bucha in Kyiv Oblast, which, following the Russian occupation in the spring of 2022, became a symbol of war crimes against the civilian population.
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