The Duke of Sussex has offered guidance to soldiers on opening up to 'friends and family' during a surprise visit to Ukraine only days after a landmark meeting with his father.
Prince Harry, 40, was invited Kiyv by the Superhumans Center, a hub giving soldiers emotional and physical treatment and rehabilitation for war trauma, as part of his duties as founder and patron of the Invictus Games
During a panel discussion, organised by the group which supports over 150,000 seriously wounded Ukrainian servicemen and women, the Duke offered his own advice to those returning home from combat.
'Don't stay silent. Silence will hold you in the dark. Open up to your friends and family, because in doing so you give them permission to do the same,' he said while on the panel at the National Museum of the History of Ukraine in the Second World War.
He also extended a tribute those beyond the battlefield, honouring 'the wives and mothers who keep their loved ones on the straight and narrow, they deserve as much respect as anyone who serves.'
