democracy stands. the president of the united states on an unprecedented and dangerous trip into ukraine as russia s invasion nears one year of barberism and bloodshed. this conversation brings us closer to victory. president biden s visit to kyiv, a rebuke of vladimir p putin. how far will the u.s. and allies go to defend a no, ma amsy on the brink? and what will puten do next? russia s aim was to wipe ukraine off the map. putin s war of conquest is failing. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer, and this is a special edition of the situation room. president biden is back in ukraine tonight, preparing for a momentous day tomorrow when he and vladimir putin will be delivering dueling addresses nearly 800 miles apart. president biden traveled under a cloak of secrecy to the capitol this morning, a city russia thought it could capture at the start of the invasion, but kyiv still stands one year into this war. w
putin directly earlier today. he did. he challenged him directly saying, basically, he got it wrong. what he thought was going to happen has not happened. that does not mean they re in this ideal scenario. obviously there is a brutal war waging in ukraine. but talking about how far putin s expectations have fallen from a year ago. you and i were here 11 months ago listening to president biden speak in the same place he will be speaking tomorrow. that was when he made that comment about putin saying he cannot remain in power. of course, still a feeling that the president shares today. but what you are going to see on display tomorrow is president putin will speak first. then you will hear from president biden hours later. it will be two vastly different world views, this thing you have seen president biden return to time and time again. that is going to be more of what he s saying tomorrow. but underneath all of that, there will be questions about what other support the u.s. is
mounting concern tonight that china may increase its support of russia by arming it with lethal weapons as u.s. officials warn china that doing so would cross a red line. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy raised an alarm that china s involvement would risk what the president of ukraine calls world war iii. the giopolitical fault lines deppen further as china s top diplomat traveled to russia today. let s get some insight right now from a white house insider who was directly involved in planning president biden s unprecedented very dangerous trip to kyiv. john is serving us. he serves as principal deputy national security advisor. thank you for joining us on this day. we ll get to china in a moment. but let s start with the
times since the war began. and our own christiane amanpour is look at to meet the polish president. president duda. on what he s pushing president biden to do. a lot going on we ll have a full full special report coming up tomorrow night 9 pm eastern. 12 are viewers, thanks very much for watching. i m wolf blitzer, in the situation room. cnn tonight with alison camerota starts right now. good evening everyone. welcome to special holiday dish on cnn tonight on this presidents day. one man who seems to want that job, governor ron desantis, taking his war on woke show on the road today. he s going to blue states and offering police officers money to move to florida. one person who really does not like what desantis is selling, donald trump. and, congressman george santos
carefully, honestly before just going out and commenting on it. jonathan, thank you very much. i know it is an incredibly busy day today. thanks for joining us. we will continue this conversation for sure down the road. up next, what will vladimir putin say tomorrow after being upstaged by president biden today? the russian leader s plans to address his people, taking on even more importance right now. and the first and only ukrainian born member of the u.s. congress with her view on whether the u.s. is doing enough to help her home country. stay with us. you re in the situation room. t.