the a message to the ukrainian people that most of america stands with them. it was a message to russia and vladimir putin that the u.s. will continue to support ukraine militarily and otherwise. perhaps it was the a message for china. and other add adversary to not question america s willingness to defend democracy wherever it lives speaking of china. vladimir putin and xi jinping agreed to meet. joining us is dan hoffman. how do you assess the state of the war and the state of the region. we re tracking this horrific war of attrition with thousands of casualties on both sides. but really the story of the war is just the damage that russia has inflicted upon ukraine. deliberately targeting civilian neighborhoods and hospitals and maternity wards, that is why the ukraineanians are fighting on to force the russian out of their territory. but i think one story is that china is the big winner in this war right now, they are exploiting a weakened russia. which has been bloodied
mentioned the human rights violation. is this jeopardizes putin s standing within russia. i think there is a possibility of that happening, there is a lot of fishers right now within russia, we saw the head of wagner group publicly denounce the ministry of def defense. and army chief of staff, and publicly posted pictures of waagner s soldiers, i use that term lightly, they are prisoners, convicts, dead on the battlefield. we could speed up ukraine s ability to fight back. the longer this goes on, it