good evening, president biden is expected back in washington after a three day european trip designed to strengthen support for ukraine a year into russia s invasion. we forgiving warsaw this, morning the president met with leaders from the eastern, frank and the joint commitment stand with ukrainian people, for as long as it takes. volodymyr putin for his part was also meeting with china s top envoy saying cooperation between their countries is very important for, quote, stabilizing the international situation. russia wants weapons from china, the pentagon spokeswoman today when it would, quote, certainly be a miscalculation of china to provide lethal aid to russia. president biden had a similar answer today when abc s david muir and asked about putin s announcement to say that moscow was suspending participation in the nuclear arms treaty with u.s.. what is your message to putin on that? it is a big mistake to do that. it s not very responsible. but i don t read int
u.s.. what is your message to putin on that? it is a big mistake to do that. it s not very responsible. but i don t read into that that he s thinking of using nuclear weapons or anything like that. as for mr. putin, who cast the invasion in defensive terms yesterday, he signaled the opposite today, suggesting it s a war aimed at restoring a piece of the old russian and soviet empire. speaking at a concert, marking tours defender of the fatherland de, he said the battle is happening on, quote, our historical borders, meaning at the contemporary internationally recognized borders that russian forces crossed a year ago this week when they invaded ukraine. cnn chief white house correspondent phil mattingly is in warsaw for us tonight. cnn s fred pleitgen is in moscow. and in kyiv, cnn chief international correspondent clarissa ward. phil mattingly starts us off. what are the feelings among the white house officials about the trip, as it wrapped up? you know, anderson, in talking to