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Former US Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch answers a question a during a conversation with Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies Dean Lee Feinstein during the conference on America's Role in the World at IU. Yovanovitch was presented with the Richard G. Lugar Award. rough transcript: So very early on, in the early 1990s, we saw Russia sort of have a lot of influence, shall we say, and a military, a significant military presidents in Moldova, specifically Transdniestria, then, you know, fast forward to 2008. And we had the Georgia invasion. And then again, a pause. And in 2014, you have the takeover of Crimea when the world was really, you know, sort of back on its heels, not really understanding what was happening. And then sort of the creeping war in the east of Ukraine and in the dome boss, Russia is a an expansionist power. And I think philosophically over the centuries has felt that it was important to expand it spanned its territory in order to keep the core safe. And I think that's what we're seeing now. And so when we see Ukraine being attacked militarily, both in the in Crimea and in the east. And just to remind everybody here that although I know that you can pass the map test, but just to remind that Ukraine borders a number of NATO countries, and the US has treaty obligations to those NATO countries