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top of the hour this wednesday. i m jim sciutto. i m kristen fisher. next hour, president biden heading home after this critical trip to europe including a historic visit to ukraine. this morning the president held a roundtable with the nato secretary-general and leaders of those nato countries that are closest to russia s borders and the u.s. and its allies really facing this daunting challenge now of how to keep the momentum on ukraine side one year after russia s invasion. today as we approach the one-year anniversary of russia s further invasion, it s even more important that we continue to stand together, and i think this is proof of this, how strongly we feel. well, on the other side, russian president vladimir putin met this morning with a top chinese diplomat. putin says moscow and beijing are, quote, reaching new milestones as we learn now that a meeting may be in the works between putin and chinese president xi jinping with u.s. officials warning tha ....
we begin with vladimir putin delivering a major speech doubling down on the goals of russia s so-called special military operation in ukraine that began a year ago. it is a day after president biden s surprise visit to the ukrainian capital. this teach along with biden s planned address in warsaw setting up an extraordinary split screen moment hours apart, the two leaders laying out their vastly different visions of the conflict. we have coverage from every angle. clare sebastian, let s start with you. on the heels of biden s unexpected historic trip to kyiv, what is vladimir putin saying this morning? well, this was unmistakably a tirade against the west. this was president putin blaming the west for starting the war in ukraine and escalating it, blaming the west for the casualties. he said west started it and russia is using force to try to stop it. and he says russia has been trying to work through this through peaceful means. take a listen. translator: i ve done ....
now, this is a gas line on fire in the middle of all the wreckage. emergency responders say they were slammed with 911 calls for d gas leaks and building collapses. we have a all hands on deck right now. all neighborhoods not just this nei neighborhood. my 25 years here, this is probably the worst damage ooi v seen. just catastrophic. cnn s rosa flores on the ground in pasadena, texas. you have been seeing the damage there. tell us about it, please, rosa. reporter: there were so many intense moments. that s what the people here say. and we re on the path of that destruction. i want you to look over my shoulder because what you re seeing here is some of the downed power lines at this height of this storm. you can see that some of the power poles were snapped like toothpicks. at the height of this storm, about 100,000 customers were without power. if you look beyond these power lines, you ll see there s a mangled mess back there. that s actually a gym. the owner o ....
going on behind the scene. russia is respond to go this news. the russian ambassador to germany says berlin s move brings the conflict, quote, to a new level, as creme len spokesperson peskov says russia will destroy ukraine s tanks. natasha, is the u.s. s view this is a game change r? in a way. they re not going to hit the ground immediately, it could take as many as three, four months for the ukrainians to even be trained on them, but what we are told is that this could potentially be game changing in terms of breaking through russia s defensive lines in ukraine. they want to take the fight directly to the russians so they can take back that territory versus striking them with longer-range equipment that the u.s. has given them. they re still asking for the extremely long-range missiles, but in terms of a grinding fight that allows them to break those russian lines, they say this could be game changing. the reason would you the u.s. has been pushing jerchy for w ....
being there for us. let s bring in brigadier general patrick ryder. thanks so much for being here. it was just a few days ago that we heard about how these m1 abrams tanks were too labor-intensive, too complex, too hard to refuel, and too hard to send to ukraine. what changed in the past couple of days? well, it s important to highlight too, that what we have been focused on is the near-term ri requirements for ukraine on the battlefield, the capabilities that they need to be immediately effective to address the things that sam highlighted. however, we do assess that ukraine requires a combination of armored personnel carriers, fighting vehicles, and tanks to be able to have the maneuver capability that will need to be successful, both in the near term and in the longer term in this fight, and so really what you are seeing here is the united states making a commitment, demonstrating its commitment to ukraine for the long-term, combined with the near-term capabilitie ....