thank you for being here, everyone. i m kate bolduan. president biden is wrapping up his momentous trip overseas to mark the one-year invasion of ukraine. he is meet welcome the bucharest nine in warsaw. the president declaring his unwavering support for the alliance. commitment of the united states and nato, and i ve said it to you many times and i ll say it again is absolutely clear. article 5 is a sacred commitment the united states has made. we will defend literally every inch of nato, every inch of nato. that meeting is one day after president biden accused russia of committing crimes against humanity when he was in ukraine. vladimir putin is having his own series of meetings with china s top diplomat around the time that president biden was in ukraine, russia tried to test a ballistic missile and let s begin with phil mattingly once again in warsaw. what s to come of biden s meetings today. it s interesting. this is not the dramatic symbolism of the monday surpris
verbally and also to make very clear whether it is through u.s. troops or whether through u.s. assistance that they ll be there no matter what and the president reiterated a key point and he never hess t hesitates to on ar. the war between ukraine and russia. knowing there is no end in sight at this point in time and there s much more that will have to be done and you often view it through the lane of defense assistance and humanitarian aid for ukraine, these countries want to know what the claim is and these countries want to understand the thought process going forward and that s why this is such a critical meeting and it is not just some way to end the trip. this mattered and it s something that the president has pursued in terms of the alliance and this group in particular throughout the course of the last 12 months. absolutely. it s great to see you, phil. thank you so much.
that president biden was in ukraine, russia tried to test a ballistic missile and let s begin with phil mattingly once again in warsaw. what s to come of biden s meetings today. it s interesting. this is not the dramatic symbolism of the monday surprise visit to kyiv nor is it the widescale rhetorical flourish that we saw in his prime time remarks in warsaw, but substantively, this meeting that went behind closed doors for more than an hour and we haven t seen the president depart for one point in time and it s critical of the eastern-flanked countries of the alliance and they re the tip of the spear and the front lines and have been very unsettled, as you can imagine by what they ve seen over the course of the last year and this bucharest nine group was developed in the wake of rush s aggression in ukraine and the annexation of crimea and they ve made clear repeatedly over the course of this last year that they need more. they want more help and they want the u.s. not only to commit
thank you for being here, everyone. i m kate bolduan. president biden is wrapping up his momentous trip overseas to mark the one-year invasion of ukraine. he is meet welcome the bucharest nine in warsaw. the president declaring his unwavering support for the alliance. commitment of the united states and nato, and i ve said it to you many times and i ll say it again is absolutely clear. article 5 is a sacred commitment the united states has made. we will defend literally every inch of nato, every inch of nato. that meeting is one day after president biden accused russia of committing crimes against humanity when he was in ukraine. vladimir putin is having his own series of meetings with china s top diplomat around the time
vladimir putin for his part is trying to rally russians behind the aggression of ukraine, and with the top diplomat in moscow. chinese president xi jinping might be planning his own trip to russia quite soon. claire is live in russia with details on this one. claire, what was this meeting in moscow all about? two things, i think. one is this is a message essentially to the russian people and to the world that despite the sanctions pressure and the war that all of the consequences of that that russia has faced, it is not isolated. it continues to cultivate this relationship with china which provides a counterpoint to the western transatlantic alliance that we ve seen in such sharp focus and the second thing is this is a critical, economic relationship and china has to some degree propped up putin s war chest in the last year and it has provided a market for the