foreign ministry accused ukrain of increasing attacks on the breakaway region and herding th russian civilians, so we have a pretext right there that the russian propaganda are dreaming up. so what is the u.s. obligation or role in that region because the american people have grown tired of foreign entanglement in our young men and women being sent around the globe, our we lost 1 of our best there is the end in afghanistan in the attack on th airport so all of that is fresh on americans minds, so with tha in mind, what is our obligation to the ukraine? excellent question shannon, it ukraine is not currently a part of nato, so we did not hav the so-called collective security obligations to defend ukraine, but the united states