Prince William has been criticized online for comments he made during a Wednesday visit with wife Kate Middleton to the Ukrainian Cultural Center in London, where the royal pair wore yellow and blue pins in solidarity with Ukraine and brought homemade brownies and granola bars. The couple’s children “have been coming home asking all about it,” William said, referring to Russia’s unprovoked and widely condemned invasion of Ukraine.” He added that “It’s very alien to see this in Europe. We are all behind you…We feel so useless.” Critics responded with numerous examples of war in Europe.

Correction: This story has been updated to reflect that William said it’s “alien to see” war in Europe but did not say Britons were “more used to seeing conflict in Africa and Asia.”