that has just wrapped up with russian president vladimir putin calling his meeting with chinese president xi jingping successful. today, the two leaders signing a joint declaration deepening their partnership. and the summit obviously comes at a critical time for the war in ukraine. there are strong indications now that russia and china are moving closer both economically and militarily. xi is framing himself as a possible peace broker and they say it could be the basis for ending the war. but the u.s. and western allies remain deeply sceptical. there are signs that russia has requested lethal aid from china but added they don t see evidence that weapons are being delivered. we have team coverage on this. ivan watson is in ukraine. but let s begin with will ripley in taiwan. what more do we know about the talks in moscow today? well, you know, there was a line from vladimir putin as they were signing these documents deepening their partnership that really summed up the re
ukra ukrainian capital today. the prime minister of japan showed up unexpectedly. didn t make it public for security reasons. he s meeting with the ukrainian president today. the leader of the third largest economy in the world. another major power in asia here while xi jingping is meeting with the russian president showing his support for ukraine, even as europe has pledged another 1.5 billion euros to support ukraine in its fight against its much larger enemy. a major moment there, no doubt. we should point out that xi has met with vladimir putin some 40 times. he s not yet directly had a conversation with vladimir putin to this point. ivan, thank you so much. we re following new developments on a plan to speed up the shipments of u.s. weapons to ukraine. let s take you to fort sill, oklahoma, now. we re there and we have new reporting on this plan to get tanks and patriot missile systems to ukraine faster than