As Trump's envoy meets Putin, Prince Harry's visit echoes Europe's embrace of Ukraine
Prince Harry's Ukraine visit brought soft power to Europe's pledge of military aid to Kyiv, even as U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff took high-level meetings in Moscow.
A visit from Prince Harry to Ukraine this week brought a soft power sheen to Europe's latest pledge of military aid to Kyiv, even as U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff prepared to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow.
At a meeting in Brussels, Ukraine's NATO allies pledged an additional $23 billion in financial assistance to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who late Thursday accused Russia of systemically recruiting Chinese citizens to fight on the front lines of the war it has been waging against Ukraine for three years.
The war has claimed the lives of at least 46,000 Ukrainian troops and wounded or maimed almost 400,000 more, Zelenskyy told NBC News in February.
Prince Harry during a visit to the Superhumans Centre in Lviv, Ukraine, on Thursday.AFP - Getty ImagesAfter visiting London from his home in California to appear at his security-related court case against the British government, the Duke of Sussex met Thursday with some of the war's living victims in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv.
A spokesperson for Harry told NBC News that the duke, a non-working royal on an unofficial visit, wanted to see the support and rehabilitation services being provided to Ukrainians. On his tour of the Superhumans Center, he was joined by veterans from the Invictus Games Foundation, a wounded veterans charity that he founded having himself served in the British armed forces.
Rating: 5