strong relations with our people during all these challenges. we go shoulder to shoulder, and we re thankful to the american people. now, cnn correspondents are covering all of the angles. phil mattingly and kevin liptak are high in hiroshima. thanks to all of you. phil, we want to get to you first. we re waiting as you can see there for that presidential press conference. phil, listen, long gone are the days when g7 summits were boring. i can t believe how much we got out of this one. it was an am birns agenda for president biden and all of the allies. what are you taking from the fact that president biden and president zelensky took the stage in such a dramatic fashion. reporter: it s now going into the 15th month since russia s invasion.
hold a press conference moment m momentarily. prison made a surprise appearance at the summit to make his case face-to-face and in person. he met with president biden who announced a new round of military aid to ukraine. take a listen. today i m announcing the next trounce of u.s. security say sis tans to ukraine, a pack thaj that includes more ammunition, artillery, and armored vehicles to bolster ukraine s abilities. together with the entire g7, we have ukraine s back, and i promise we re not going anywhere. thank you very much, mr. president. we also thank you for your leadership, for your support, and really for this new package. it s grateful from all our people. and i m so happy we have such
republicans who are refusing to raise the national debt limit. if that s not done soon, the u.s. could default on its debts for the very first time in history and the fallout could be severe. right now president biden is in hiroshima, japan. you see the podium there. he attended the g7 summit. it wrapped up. the war in ukraine on top of the agenda. volodymyr zelenskyy made a surprise visit to the g7 summit to plead for more military assistance. for more on the story, i m joined by john herbst, former ambassador to ukraine. i thank you for your tomb. as i m sure it s been interesting for you to watch all the choreography of everything that s happened with zelenskyy the n the past few days, he secured both moral and military support, and yet, you know, arguably some would say that this just enables further military escalation. in your view, what has all of this accomplished?
september when the spending process will have to begin again. that s an open question of how many republicans will come on board with that. so i think when president biden speaks today, one of the things i think he ll want to convey to the press torque , to the world who are listening to this press conference, he is confident this support for ukraine will be sustained, and i think you ll hear that from others with as they prepare to leave. kevin, we see the president now and we want to take you to hiroshima, japan, where president biden will take the podium. please have a seat. good evening, everyone. before turning to the important work we accomplished here at the g7, i want to take a few minutes to address the budget negotiations that i m heading back home to deal with. before i left for this trip, i met with all four congressional
meet with zelenskyy. it s a really rather shameful performancing and i think this is well under by people in brazil. yeah, and we ll continue to see how zelenskyy s efforts continue on those points. he also went to the arab league and tried to deal with some of the people there who are still having diplomatic relations and otherwise with russia. ambassador john herbst, we ll have to leave it there, but i thank you for your time. my pleasure, thank you. we want to bring in our kevin liptak again who s standing by as we await the press conference with president biden as he wraps up the g7 summit in japan. kevin, i want to bring you up to date as well on some reporting we have in cnn and the deputy defense minister saying to cnn she disputes that bakhmut has been completely taken over by russian forces, and that in their words the city is not completely encircled and they