Veterans organization gives back to severely wounded 'appreciative' Ukrainian soldiers

One American veterans nonprofit is giving backmost to Ukrainian soldiers severely wounded successful combat oregon successful Russian warfare camps.

The American Warrior Partnership (AWP), a 501c3 based successful Georgia, seeks to code intelligence wellness challenges for veterans "long earlier a situation occurs," according to its website.

President Jim Lorraine, himself an Air Force veteran, shared with Fox News Digital AWP's concern successful aiding Ukrainian soldiers.

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"The American Warrior Partnership is simply a nationalist veterans-serving nonprofit," Lorraine said. "Our absorption is connected getting to cognize veterans each implicit the country, knowing what they request connected 1 hand, and past connecting them to section and nationalist resources connected the other, with the extremity of improving their prime of beingness truthful that they person specified a precocious prime of beingness that that termination is not thing they contemplate."

The AWP precocious teamed up with Metinvest, a radical of alloy and mining companies that operates successful the U.S. and Ukraine and is Ukraine's largest company, to assistance modulation thousands of their employees serving connected the frontline backmost into the workforce.

American Warrior Partnership visited Ukrainian soldiers and erstwhile prisoners of warfare to assistance integrate them backmost into Metinvest's workforce. (American Warrior Partnership)

According to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's estimates, 380,000 of his country's soldiers person been injured successful the ongoing warfare with Russia. Approximately 57,000 of those person suffered terrible amputations, putting Ukraine successful a challenging presumption to reintegrate hundreds of thousands of injured work members backmost into civilian life.

Metinvest hired AWP straight for this initiative, ensuring that nary U.S. assistance funds designated for American veterans were utilized successful assisting Ukrainian veterans. The collaboration operates wholly utilizing Metinvest’s resources, reinforcing a committedness to supporting veterans without diverting assistance intended for U.S. work members. 

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Ret. Lt. Col. Lorraine, a 20-year combat seasoned of the Air Force, got to personally cognize respective Ukrainian veterans successful his enactment with Metinvest. One veteran, affectionately known arsenic "Wikipedia" for his immense knowledge, suffered an above-the-knee amputation successful combat and had a prosthetic limb finished successful Staten Island, New York, by the company.

Ret. Air Force Lt. Col. Jim Lorraine served arsenic a combat caregiver for 20 years earlier joining the American Warrior Partnership. (American Warrior Partnership)

"They were each looking guardant to their independence, to starting a beingness without a hazard of harassment and getting backmost to their families," Lorraine said. "And past I get to archer you, that's that's nary antithetic than anyone, immoderate seasoned that I've ever met is our extremity is, you know, unafraid and marque our state safe." 

As acold arsenic the ongoing warfare with Russia, Lorraine urges Americans to spot the plight of the Ukrainians arsenic 1 that could rapidly impact us.

A memorial successful Ukraine commemorating the lives mislaid successful the warfare with Russia shared by the American Warrior Partnership. (American Warrior Partnership)

"I conscionable don't privation to spot U.S. troops there… My lad served, and arsenic I've said, he's a Purple Heart recipient. I don't privation him serving," Lorraine said. "And if the Ukrainians, who are warring an unthinkable combat against a satellite power, are holding their own, and person pushed Russia backmost to the edges of their borders, if they tin bash it with resources, not money, but resources, subject resources, and I would besides accidental humanitarian resources, if they tin bash that, I deliberation we're each safer. I deliberation Europe's safer and I deliberation the United States is safer." 

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AWP stresses that veterans stock similarities each the satellite over, and that Ukrainian veterans returning to civilian beingness payment from the aforesaid holistic attack that U.S. work members do.

"Our motto astatine America's Warrior Partnership is ‘together we tin bash better,’" Lorraine said. "And that's what I genuinely judge is what we're trying to bash for Ukraine is enactment unneurotic with them truthful that they tin bash better."