LINCOLN — Sen. Tom Brewer of Gordon will leave Nebraska on Friday for an extended trip into and across battle-torn Ukraine, where he will assess conditions and humanitarian needs.

An earlier plan to travel to Poland got scratched in replacement for the upcoming trip to Ukraine. He originally intended to stay in Poland and assist in logistical and humanitarian activities for refugees who fled after the Russian military invaded Ukraine and initiated relentless bombardment of its cities, turning many of them into rubble.

Brewer will meet with Noah Philson in Krakow, Poland, a young Nebraskan who is been providing humanitarian assistance, and they will travel to Lviv in western Ukraine.

From there, the two will go to the capital of Kyiv with a driver and interpreter who will take Brewer through the country to the final destination of Odesa, a deep-water port on the Black Sea.

They will go through the worn-torn Donbas region along the way where Russian forces have virtually destroyed the port city of Mariupol.

Brewer’s mission is to assess humanitarian needs and “figure out a way to break up the logjam” of equipment and resources that is currently “stacked along runways in Poland.”

“Ukrainians are busy fighting the war,” he said, “and can’t bring it in.”

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