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our panel, but hes all of you for joining us. >> im crazy. how dont go anywhere seen in central starts right now cnn breaking good morning, everyone. >> and we do have breaking news. president biden, just moments ago speaking as he is sitting alongside ukrainian president zelenskyy ahead they critical bilateral meeting that they are now. thats now taking place right now. theyre both in france as we know, the president has been there to mark an honor the greatest generation, the 80th th...

House leadership, whether or not it was going to approve any new weapons packages and youre absolutely right, omar, i was on the ground in ukraine when all of this started happening and when the ukrainians, i think it was in september of last year, those ammo applies, especially a really became very scarce. they had to ration some of the ammunition. they were very low on artillery shells. and it was very difficult for them. they felt all but abandoned by western nations, specifically by the unit...

31% increase in civilian casualties and may compared to april, we have cnns fred pleitgen joining us now on this for president biden is vowing to stand by ukraine as the country is facing a critical point in this war yeah, hes certainly isnt. >> i think thats something thats extremely important, of course, for the ukrainians to here. and i think also quite frankly the frank that the president went and apologize to the ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy in that meeting that took place was al...

Zelenskyy would even show up to the summit. >> reporter: thats right. we didnt really know. we didnt have any confirmation from his office until until later this afternoon our time then of course he popped up in lithuania with some softer language. not completely soft, but softer than that initial tweet where he called the nato statement on possible ukrainian membership absurd. look, there is huge support for joining nato in this country. even the defense minister was asked about this today. he ...

EXCLUSIVE: Express.co.uk spoke to Ukrainian opposition leader Kira Rudik about the significance of the UKs last week of weapons deliveries, including hundreds of air defence missiles, new long-range attack drones, with a range of more than 200km, and the Storm Shadow long-range missiles.

And the u.s., and do you worry at all that that could feed into some differences between the biden administration and republicans on capitol hill? >> i dont. i dont. the question that our military, that general milley and -- indeed the president have all said -- those decisions on the military application, the military decisions, tactics, those are ukrainians. theyre obviously the best place to make these decisions. so i dont think theres any difference between the ukrainians and the americans. ...

Remarkably durable, that has been able to stick together. more than two dozen countries across the continents with countervailing pressures on the economic side and the domestic side, sticking together through the course of the year and they know theyll had to stick together for even longer. when we talked to white house officials a acknowledge at reality they acknowledge the amount of work that lies ahead, and they acknowledge the fact that in all countries d, efense and industrial basis have b...

>> lets go to barbara starr live at the pentagon. one of the reasons for success, the ukrainians say, this is ministry of defense video, these new higher tech u.s. weapons. hot is the state of play in terms of pentagon perspective in terms of how well the ukrainians are doing and what is next? >> the real question is what does happen next. there is a lot of caution here at the pentagon. about $14 billion in u.s. military assistance has already gone to ukraine, just on friday, more than $600 mill...

Going to have to be able to generate the capacity with troops and with their own equipment to counter the ukraine offensive. there is a long way to go on all of this and a lot of caution about it. look for the u.s. and the allies to send more tailored weapons packages in the days ahead, more intelligence assessment, more aid in cooperation with the ukraine forces, but nobody is spiking the ball that ukraine has got this wrapped up anytime soon. jim, poppy. >> there is taking territory then there...

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