KYIV- State Sen. Tom Brewer is on his way back from a personal, fact-finding mission in Ukraine with a new appreciation of the passion of Ukrainians to repel and defeat the Russian invasion.

Brewer said he plans to generate a 40- to- 50-page “trip report” to present to Nebraska’s U.S. senators on his observations of the humanitarian needs in Ukraine and how to help the country win the war.

That report, he hopes, will find its way to the U.S. Department of State, which he said, should be doing what he’s been doing but isn’t.

“We need our embassy to do what the embassy needs to be doing,” Brewer said. “Right now, it’s a big void.”

A spokesperson for the U.S. State Department said that operations at the embassy have been limited, with officials working remotely, but that the embassy engages with “partners in the field” to ensure aid is reaching the right recipients.

One asset that has been helpful, he said, is a precision-guided, U.S. rocket system, the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS), that the Ukrainians have used to take out regional headquarters and ammunition dumps. But only half of the 12 sent by the U.S. are “on the ground.”

“I honestly believe if you gave them 50 of those, they’d take back the land they lost,” Brewer said.

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