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Brad Hendrickson was a member of the Maine National Guard when he travelled on his own to Ukraine

And alone. >> i'm sort of the last mile guy in a lot of places. >> roughly speaking, do you have a sense of how many evacuations you've done since you've been here? >> dozens and dozens and dozens. surely more than 100. i bet it counting. all of these videos are brad's. snapshots of humanitarian missions few back home could imagine. >> got a call about a wounded person next door to an evacuation that happened recently. >> this was brad's thanksgiving. >> hello? hello? >> [crying] >> and nightfall a

Here. now it is a no-man's-land. it's where one american is carrying out his own operation to help ukrainians. >> that's the building we were just in. >> he's documenting scenes like these on social media, where he is known as bakhmut brad. >> whoa, yeah, let me see. >> a lone wolf of sorts -- >> hello? >> taking rescue calls when others can't or won't. >> the two primary jobs are delivering aid and then evacuating people out. >> and tell you who's just bad for the state, a guy who's had a lot of jobs, some with emergency medical training but most recently he was truck driver. now he's driving...

Call came from eastern bakhmut. he was about to begin one of his most daring rescues. >> hello. >> oh. >> 61-year-old tatiana was trying to save her husband valentin, who was injured in an explosion. she tried to stop the bleeding with tourniquet and kitchen wraps. >> we have to go to a doctor now. >> brad tried carrying valentin on his back but couldn't do it alone. we see so he pulled him down every step to the temporary safety of his toyota land cruiser. >> [speaking non-english] >> finally, after a harrowing drive -- >> [speaking non-english] >> they made the trial spindle. the written tim...

The memories of that night still haunt her except for one the and no allure a voice on the street, hey, hey, hey. i yelled. her husband of >> her husband of 48 years is alive, and she says it's only because of brad. >> [speaking non-english] >> translator: he is an unreal human, unreal. it is impossible for a person. it is impossible for an ordinary person. i just thought the division had come. >> brandon slip eastern ukraine. did you expect to be here as the long as you have? >> no, i did not. i thought i probably would have already been backed by now. >> and he says he's not going anywhere. ...