LINCOLN- A former state senator and decorated U.S. Army veteran is headed again to Ukraine in hopes of providing reassurance that Americans still support the country’s fight for freedom against Russia. This month, former Sen. Tom Brewer of Gordon is making his fifth trip to Ukraine since Russia invaded in 2022, and he feels it might be the most precarious. The war, he said, has morphed from a battle at the front of artillery and tanks into an exchange of cheap but dangerous drones and Russian “glide bombs” that can’t be detected by air defense systems.

An additional goal of the latest trip, he said, is to make connections with agricultural officials in Ukraine. Nebraska, with its farm building and equipment sector, could play an important role in rebuilding the country, according to Brewer. “If we don’t do anything until the war ends, we’ll lose that opportunity,” he said. Don Hutchens, a retired head of the Nebraska Corn Board, is among those traveling to Ukraine this time.

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