Prince Harry made an unannounced visit to Ukraine on Thursday.

Axar.az reports, citing Telegraph, the Duke of Sussex went to the Superhumans Centre in Lviv, in the west of Ukraine, where wounded soldiers and civilians are treated and rehabilitated.

The trip came a day after he appeared in a court in London to argue that he needed state-backed security for him and his family in the UK because his “life was at risk”.

Prince Harry is the second member of the royal family to visit Ukraine since the war broke out in 2022 after Sophie, Duchess of Edinburgh, travelled there last year.

Last month, Prince William met Ukrainian refugees during a two-day visit to Estonia.

Photographs from Thursday’s visit showed him wearing a jacket emblazoned with the name of his Invictus Games Foundation as he talked to wounded Ukrainian veterans. He also met Natalia Kalmykova, Ukraine’s minister of veterans’ affairs.

The Duke’s visit, to an area that is a frequent target of Russian missiles, was not announced until after he had left Britain. It is understood Buckingham Palace was not made aware of the trip in advance because the Duke is no longer a working royal.