During Prince Harry’s unannnounced visit to the Superhumans rehabilitation center in Lviv, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy of Ukraine Yuliia Svyrydenko presented him with a symbolic gift — an Easter basket.
It contained Easter cakes (Paschas) and pysanka Easter eggs, Svyrydenko reported on Friday, April 11, on Facebook.
“The Easter cake was made with flour from demined fields. It was baked by grandmothers from the Sumy region bordering Russia, whose villages are in the explosive hazard zone. And the Easter eggs for this basket were made by the mother of paramedic Iryna Tsybukh, who died last year in Kharkiv region when her car hit a Russian mine,” the minister wrote.
She added that in this way she wanted to show the real price that Ukraine pays every day because of the war and mine-infested territories.
“Thank you, Prince Harry for your incredible support of Ukraine, for your humanity and simplicity. For the way he hugged children with reverence, how he sincerely communicated with the young men and women at Superhumans,” Svyrydenko said.
On April 10, AP, citing Prince Harry’s press secretary, reported that he visited the Superhumans Center clinic in Lviv on an unannounced visit, and also met with the Minister of Veterans Affairs of Ukraine, Natalia Kalmykova.
According to the initiator of the Superhumans project, Andriy Stavnitser, during the prince’s visit to the center, he met with the participants of Ukraine’s national team at the Invictus Games – an international sports competition for veterans, where Prince Harry is one of the founders.
Then Prince Harry himself commented on his visit: “This is my first visit to Ukraine, and it certainly won’t be the last,” Harry said to a group of reporters outside the center, per Reuters. “The surgeons inside the eardrum trying to help as many people as possible. I’ve seen a lot of different centers, but having a purpose built center where everything is under one roof and where individuals are going through surgery and then in the same building, they’re being fitted with prosthetics and then they are sent home. It’s astonishing.”
