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Major ukrainian withdrawal from bakhmut. they are standing their ground. if russia were able to take bakhmut, it would be a major victory. but it is up for debate how much of a strategic victory it would be. yes, it would be another foothold for russia in eastern ukraine, but it would remain to be seen whether russia would be able to use that to push deeper into eastern ukraine, especially since they would be in such a weakened state after this fierce battle for bakhmut. >> alex marquardt in eastern ukraine, thank you so much. to help ukrainian forces president biden announced another $400 m...

Committed to providing assistance on a variety of fronts, going from security, humanitarian, economic and political assistance as well as cracking down on russia. now, of course, president zelenskyy has asked for those f-16 fighter jets. president biden so far has said he's ruling it out for now. but in the interim, another $400 million package. >> let's talk more about all this. david sanger is a cnn political and national security analyst. he's also a correspondent for the "new york times" and the author of "the perfect weapon." good to see you, david. so this $400 million brings the total u...

This war, ukrainian nation is no more. >> you're fighting for your existence? >> we are fighting for our existence, and for our future. >> reporter: a future that still remains uncertain as the war enters year two. charlie d'agata, cbs news, the air field near kyiv. president biden spending the weekend in delaware days after his surprise visit to ukraine. new interest by china into the conflict is also drawing u.s. attention. krshs' christina ruffini is at the white house with more. >> reporter: last year at this time, we were standing at the ukrainian border watching the first wave of refug...

Will: and dangerous. take a look, united states now koenenal contribution appropriated by congress from u.s. to ukraine reached $113 billion. we need a bit of a break down on that. unit given $32 billion in direct security funding to ukraine. now let's compare that to other countries. $8.3 billion by the uk, germany $6.16 billion, canada $4, poland $3.5 billion. you can see united states far in a way leads those contributing to ukrainian defense and i was looking up what the ukrainian total budget was for their own expenditures and ukraine's 2022 budget was about $48.5 billion u.s. dollars and...

Different fronts over the course of the coming months and years. as long as it takes as we have heard president biden say as long as ukraine continues to fight off this war of aggression being waged by russia. what we're also seeing by the united states is security assistance bringing the total u.s. security assistance to $32 billion. and also a string of new sanctions announced today which the treasury department is billing as the most to date. and especially after a year of trying to cut off russia from the global economy, what they are focusing on, and i spoke with the deputy treasury secre...