The U.S. military should be treating more Ukrainian service members suffering major injuries on the battlefield against Russia, a pair of U.S. senators said Tuesday.
Sens. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., and Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., made the comments after visiting a Ukrainian soldier who received a prosthetic leg from a clinic in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C., with the help of charitable foundations.
“I suspect that we as a nation will work on more [help for Ukrainian service members] because we have a history of treating amputees from allied nations or friendly nations who can't be treated in their own home country,” said Duckworth, a retired Army National Guard lieutenant colonel who lost both of her legs while serving in Iraq and recalled that members of Georgia's military were being treated at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center at the same time she was.
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“Sen. Van Hollen and I are going to get together and see about what we can do to make the resources available to the most severe wounds,” she added. “Some of these wounds, there's just not capacity at all in Ukraine. And a lot of places, they just don't have the expertise that exists here at Walter Reed.”
Duckworth and Van Hollen met Tuesday with Oleksandr Chaika, a 33-year-old children's choreographer who joined the Ukrainian military after Russia invaded in…
