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&lt;div class="p0 ft0" style="text-align: left; padding-left: 220px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font: bold 15px 'arial'; line-height: 18px;"&gt;VOYA INVESTORS TRUST&lt;/div&gt;



&lt;div class="p1 ft1" style="text-align: left; padding-left: 231px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font: 15px 'arial'; line-height: 17px;"&gt;Voya High Yield Portfolio&lt;/div&gt;


&lt;div class="p2 ft1" style="text-align: left; padding-left: 263px; margin-top: 3px; margin-bottom: 0px; font: 15px 'arial'; line-height: 17px;"&gt;(the &#x201c;Portfolio&#x201d;)&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div class="p3 ft1" style="text-align: left; padding-left: 204px; margin-top: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; font: 15px 'arial'; line-height: 17px;"&gt;Supplement dated June 25, 2025&lt;/div&gt;


&lt;div class="p4 ft1" style="text-align: left; padding-left: 6px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font: 15px 'arial'; line-height: 17px;"&gt;to the Portfolio&#x2019;s Adviser Class, Institutional Class, Service Class, and Service 2 Class Shares&#x2019;&lt;/div&gt;



&lt;div class="p5 ft1" style="text-align: left; padding-left: 273px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font: 15px 'arial'; line-height: 17px;"&gt;Prospectus,&lt;/div&gt;



&lt;div class="p6 ft1" style="text-align: left; padding-left: 191px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font: 15px 'arial'; line-height: 17px;"&gt;dated May 1, 2025, as supplemented&lt;/div&gt;



&lt;div class="p7 ft1" style="text-align: left; padding-left: 253px; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 0px; font: 15px 'arial'; line-height: 17px;"&gt;(the &#x201c;Prospectus&#x201d;)&lt;/div&gt;


&lt;div class="p8 ft1" style="text-align: justify; padding-right: 96px; margin-top: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; font: 15px 'arial'; line-height: 17px;"&gt;Effective June 16, 2025: (1) Principal Investment Strategies and risks for the Portfolio are revised to allow the Portfolio to invest in convertible securities; (2) the secondary benchmark for the Portfolio is changed from Bloomberg High Yield Bond &#x2013; 2% Issuer Constrained Composite Index to the ICE BofA U.S. High Yield Index; (3) Mohamed Basma, CFA and Randall Parrish, CFA are removed as portfolio managers for the Portfolio; and (4) Justin Kass, CFA, David J. Oberto, and Ethan Turner, CFA are added as portfolio managers for the Portfolio.&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div class="p9 ft1" style="text-align: left; margin-top: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; font: 15px 'arial'; line-height: 17px;"&gt;Effective immediately, the Prospectus is revised as follows:&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div class="p10 ft3" style="text-align: left; padding-left: 52px; padding-right: 96px; margin-top: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-indent: -24px; font: 15px 'arial'; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;span class="ft1" style="font: 15px 'arial'; line-height: 17px;"&gt;1.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ft2" style="font: 15px 'arial'; margin-left: 12px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;All references to Mohamed Basma, CFA and Randall Parrish, CFA as portfolio managers for the Portfolio are deleted in their entirety.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div class="p11 ft5" style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 52px; padding-right: 96px; margin-top: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-indent: -24px; font: 15px 'arial'; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span class="ft1" style="font: 15px 'arial'; line-height: 17px;"&gt;2.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ft4" style="font: 15px 'arial'; margin-left: 12px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;The first paragraph in the section of the Prospectus entitled &#x201c;Principal Investment Strategies&#x201d; in the Portfolio&#x2019;s Summary Section is deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div class="p12 ft1" style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 52px; padding-right: 96px; margin-top: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; font: 15px 'arial'; line-height: 17px;"&gt;Under normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes) in a diversified portfolio of high-yield bonds. For purposes of this 80% policy, high-yield bonds (sometimes referred to as &#x201c;high- yield securities&#x201d; or &#x201c;junk bonds &#x201d;) include, without limitation, bonds, debt instruments, and other fixed income and income-producing debt instruments, of any kind, issued or guaranteed by governmental or private-sector entities that are rated below investment grade by one or more nationally recognized statistical rating organizations (&#x201c;NRSROs&#x201d;) ( e.g. , rated Ba1 or below by Moody&#x2019;s Ratings, or BB+ or below by S&amp;amp;P Global Ratings or Fitch Ratings, Inc.) or, if unrated, determined by the Fund to be of comparable quality. High-yield bonds include, but are not limited to: bank loans; payment- in - kind securities; fixed and variable floating rate and deferred interest debt obligations; convertible securities; zero-coupon bonds and debt obligations provided they meet the criteria for below investment grade set forth above.&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div class="p10 ft5" style="text-align: left; padding-left: 52px; padding-right: 96px; margin-top: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-indent: -24px; font: 15px 'arial'; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span class="ft1" style="font: 15px 'arial'; line-height: 17px;"&gt;3.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ft4" style="font: 15px 'arial'; margin-left: 12px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;The section of the Prospectus entitled &#x201c;Principal Risks&#x201d; in the Portfolio&#x2019;s Summary Section is amended to include the following risk:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div class="p13 ft1" style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 48px; padding-right: 96px; margin-top: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; font: 15px 'arial'; line-height: 17px;"&gt;&lt;span class="ft0" style="font: bold 15px 'arial'; line-height: 18px;"&gt;Convertible Securities: &lt;/span&gt;Convertible securities are securities that are convertible into or exercisable for common stocks at a stated price or rate. Convertible securities are subject to the usual risks associated with debt instruments, such as interest rate risk and credit risk. In addition, because convertible securities react to changes in the value of the underlying stock, they are subject to market risk.&lt;/div&gt;
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&lt;div class="p0 ft0" style="text-align: left; padding-left: 220px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font: bold 15px 'arial'; line-height: 18px;"&gt;VOYA INVESTORS TRUST&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div class="p1 ft1" style="text-align: left; padding-left: 231px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font: 15px 'arial'; line-height: 17px;"&gt;Voya High Yield Portfolio&lt;/div&gt;


&lt;div class="p2 ft1" style="text-align: left; padding-left: 263px; margin-top: 3px; margin-bottom: 0px; font: 15px 'arial'; line-height: 17px;"&gt;(the &#x201c;Portfolio&#x201d;)&lt;/div&gt;



&lt;div class="p3 ft1" style="text-align: left; padding-left: 204px; margin-top: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; font: 15px 'arial'; line-height: 17px;"&gt;Supplement dated June 25, 2025&lt;/div&gt;


&lt;div class="p4 ft1" style="text-align: left; padding-left: 6px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font: 15px 'arial'; line-height: 17px;"&gt;to the Portfolio&#x2019;s Adviser Class, Institutional Class, Service Class, and Service 2 Class Shares&#x2019;&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div class="p5 ft1" style="text-align: left; padding-left: 273px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font: 15px 'arial'; line-height: 17px;"&gt;Prospectus,&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div class="p6 ft1" style="text-align: left; padding-left: 191px; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font: 15px 'arial'; line-height: 17px;"&gt;dated May 1, 2025, as supplemented&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;div class="p7 ft1" style="text-align: left; padding-left: 253px; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 0px; font: 15px 'arial'; line-height: 17px;"&gt;(the &#x201c;Prospectus&#x201d;)&lt;/div&gt;


&lt;div class="p8 ft1" style="text-align: justify; padding-right: 96px; margin-top: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; font: 15px 'arial'; line-height: 17px;"&gt;Effective June 16, 2025: (1) Principal Investment Strategies and risks for the Portfolio are revised to allow the Portfolio to invest in convertible securities; (2) the secondary benchmark for the Portfolio is changed from Bloomberg High Yield Bond &#x2013; 2% Issuer Constrained Composite Index to the ICE BofA U.S. High Yield Index; (3) Mohamed Basma, CFA and Randall Parrish, CFA are removed as portfolio managers for the Portfolio; and (4) Justin Kass, CFA, David J. Oberto, and Ethan Turner, CFA are added as portfolio managers for the Portfolio.&lt;/div&gt;



&lt;div class="p9 ft1" style="text-align: left; margin-top: 16px; margin-bottom: 0px; font: 15px 'arial'; line-height: 17px;"&gt;Effective immediately, the Prospectus is revised as follows:&lt;/div&gt;



&lt;div class="p10 ft3" style="text-align: left; padding-left: 52px; padding-right: 96px; margin-top: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-indent: -24px; font: 15px 'arial'; line-height: 19px;"&gt;&lt;span class="ft1" style="font: 15px 'arial'; line-height: 17px;"&gt;1.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ft2" style="font: 15px 'arial'; margin-left: 12px; line-height: 19px;"&gt;All references to Mohamed Basma, CFA and Randall Parrish, CFA as portfolio managers for the Portfolio are deleted in their entirety.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;



&lt;div class="p11 ft5" style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 52px; padding-right: 96px; margin-top: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-indent: -24px; font: 15px 'arial'; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span class="ft1" style="font: 15px 'arial'; line-height: 17px;"&gt;2.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ft4" style="font: 15px 'arial'; margin-left: 12px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;The first paragraph in the section of the Prospectus entitled &#x201c;Principal Investment Strategies&#x201d; in the Portfolio&#x2019;s Summary Section is deleted in its entirety and replaced with the following:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;



&lt;div class="p12 ft1" style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 52px; padding-right: 96px; margin-top: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; font: 15px 'arial'; line-height: 17px;"&gt;Under normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets (plus the amount of any borrowings for investment purposes) in a diversified portfolio of high-yield bonds. For purposes of this 80% policy, high-yield bonds (sometimes referred to as &#x201c;high- yield securities&#x201d; or &#x201c;junk bonds &#x201d;) include, without limitation, bonds, debt instruments, and other fixed income and income-producing debt instruments, of any kind, issued or guaranteed by governmental or private-sector entities that are rated below investment grade by one or more nationally recognized statistical rating organizations (&#x201c;NRSROs&#x201d;) ( e.g. , rated Ba1 or below by Moody&#x2019;s Ratings, or BB+ or below by S&amp;amp;P Global Ratings or Fitch Ratings, Inc.) or, if unrated, determined by the Fund to be of comparable quality. High-yield bonds include, but are not limited to: bank loans; payment- in - kind securities; fixed and variable floating rate and deferred interest debt obligations; convertible securities; zero-coupon bonds and debt obligations provided they meet the criteria for below investment grade set forth above.&lt;/div&gt;



&lt;div class="p10 ft5" style="text-align: left; padding-left: 52px; padding-right: 96px; margin-top: 17px; margin-bottom: 0px; text-indent: -24px; font: 15px 'arial'; line-height: 18px;"&gt;&lt;span class="ft1" style="font: 15px 'arial'; line-height: 17px;"&gt;3.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="ft4" style="font: 15px 'arial'; margin-left: 12px; line-height: 18px;"&gt;The section of the Prospectus entitled &#x201c;Principal Risks&#x201d; in the Portfolio&#x2019;s Summary Section is amended to include the following risk:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;



&lt;div class="p13 ft1" style="text-align: justify; padding-left: 48px; padding-right: 96px; margin-top: 14px; margin-bottom: 0px; font: 15px 'arial'; line-height: 17px;"&gt;&lt;span class="ft0" style="font: bold 15px 'arial'; line-height: 18px;"&gt;Convertible Securities: &lt;/span&gt;Convertible securities are securities that are convertible into or exercisable for common stocks at a stated price or rate. Convertible securities are subject to the usual risks associated with debt instruments, such as interest rate risk and credit risk. In addition, because convertible securities react to changes in the value of the underlying stock, they are subject to market risk.&lt;/div&gt;

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