Those values are needed today to protect Ukraine and Europe and the United States from a rampant, unlawful, invasive Russia. You know, Mr. President, since the fall of the Soviet Union, Ukraine, along with the rest of Eastern Europe and the Balkan states, has moved rapidly to reorient its politics and policies towards the European Union, toward democracy, toward freedom. It was, in fact, Ukraine's pursuit of a closer relationship with the EU that Putin, the autocrat, used as an excuse to interfere in Ukraine's internal affairs. (04:38–04:53)
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Asserts that Ukraine and other Eastern European countries have shifted towards the EU and democratic values.
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