Overview
- Harry arrived by overnight train from Poland and addressed the Kyiv Security Forum on Thursday in an unannounced trip, his third since Russia’s 2022 invasion.
- In his keynote, he urged Vladimir Putin to stop the war and said further loss of life helps neither Ukrainians nor Russians.
- He pressed the United States to honor security assurances given after Ukraine surrendered its nuclear arsenal under the Budapest Memorandum.
- He condemned the forced transfer of Ukrainian children to Russia as a systematic crime that he said should carry consequences at the International Criminal Court.
- Hours after the speech, President Donald Trump said “Prince Harry is not speaking for the UK,” signaling immediate political pushback to the visit.