LINCOLN- State Senator Tom Brewer, who was seriously wounded and earned two Purple Hearts during six deployments in Afghanistan, was near the Russian lines in the war in Ukraine this week in Kharkiv. The second-largest city in the country has been the target of relentless shelling by the Russians in June.

Brewer’s initial mission was to train Ukrainian soldiers on long-range rifles and check on the humanitarian needs of war refugees, the wounded and civilians still in the country. But it has morphed into a volunteer fact-finding trip that he thinks America should be undertaking.

He said he’s seeing no quit in the Ukrainians he has met during his first week touring the war-torn country.

“They have a burning hate for the Russians and after seeing their people killed and their homes burned, they are in for the long fight,” Brewer said.

“They have lived under the Russian/Communist thumb before and they will die before they will do it again,” he added.

Before Brewer arrived in Ukraine on June 26, he underwent treatment for leukemia which he’s been battling in recent months.

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