One of two Americans killed in a Russian ambush during fighting in Ukraine “didn’t go there to be a hero,” according to his parents — who repeatedly begged him to come home …
in a Russian tank ambush in Ukraine “didn’t go there to be a hero,” according to his parents — who repeatedly begged him to come home from the war zone.
Medic Luke Lucyszyn, a dad of two dubbed “Luke Skywalker” by the Ukrainians he was helping, was injured by Russian shelling on Monday last week, hisWhen others tried to rescue him, they were ambushed by a Russian tank — killing Lucyszyn along with at least three other foreign fighters, including 51-year-old American veteran Bryan Young, the commander said.
Lucyszyn, 31, felt compelled to help because his father, George Lucyszyn, is a Ukrainian now living in North Carolina, the dadLuke Lucyszyn’s parents, George and Kathryn, told NBC News their son “didn’t go there to be a hero” before he died in Ukraine. But “he didn’t go there to be a hero. He was there because he wanted to help people,” his mother, Kathryn Lucyszyn, told the station, insisting they “tried to dissuade him” from going.Fighting back tears, the medic’s grieving mom recalled how “just a weekLuke Lucyszyn complained about not having “the right equipment” in calls to parents, who both begged him to come home, they said.
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