good morning. i m kristen fisher. i m jim sciutto. joe biden is meet virtually with g7 leaders and the ukrainian president as the world marks one year since russia s full-scale invasion of ukraine. the u.s. has pledged another $2 billion in aid to the country and announced new sanctions against russians, and the people who help them around the world, particularly procuring weapons for that invasion. defense secretary lloyd austin vows the u.s. will stand by ukraine, using a phrase we have heard frequently of late, for as long as it takes. as long as ukraine continues to conduct operations and continues to work to take back its sovereign territory, we will be there with them. you can expect that the international community will be with ukraine once the fighting stops. and just look at how the front lines of this war have evolved over the course of the past year. in that time, more than 8,000 ukrainian civilians have been killed, entire communities have been decim
ended as quickly as possible, because putin doesn t care. he seems to send his people as cannon fodder. it s a different story for the west. secretary lloyd austin said the war on cnn this morning, that the war will most likely end with negotiations. china says it has a peace plan. do you consider china a credible mediator to this war? not a mediator, but they can play an important role, but which china are we talking about? the china that seems to want to normalize relationships with the u.s., where the president is meeting secretary blinken meeting with his counterpart? or the china that sends a spy balloon down the center of the united states, apparently making noises about sending weaponry to the russians. so i think our goal needs to be diplomatically, unify the west to let china know it will be
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