Other cities and regions in the running to host the 2029 Games include Aalborg in Denmark, the Veneto region of Italy, Abuja in Nigeria, Daejeon in South Korea, and San Diego in the United States.
According to the Express, Ukraine submitted a “compelling” bid to host the Games in the nation’s capital, despite Russia’s ongoing full-scale invasion.
The 2025 Invictus Games were recently held in Vancouver, Canada, where Ukraine fielded a team of veteran athletes. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle met with the Ukrainian delegation and their families during the event, including veteran Oleksii Prytula.
Later, Harry attended a competition wearing a patch of Ukraine’s 4th Rapid Reaction Brigade “Rubizh” of the National Guard and met with Olga Rudnieva, CEO of the Ukrainian rehabilitation center Superhumans.
In April, Prince Harry made an unannounced visit to Ukraine. During his time in Lviv, he met with Roman Oleksiv, a survivor who suffered severe burns in a 2022 Russian missile strike on Vinnytsia. Ukraine’s Vice Prime Minister and Minister of Economy Yuliia Svyrydenko presented Harry with a symbolic gift — a traditional Easter basket.
Later, Meghan Markle and the couple’s children reportedly shared a taste of paska, a Ukrainian Easter bread that Harry brought back from his trip.