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Happening in ukraine right now is a pivotal moment. >> reporter: that's right. they want to make sure they're carefully navigating this. what they're hearing is it's going to be a culmination of this trip. it's a very abruptly scheduled trip that president biden said he really wanted that nato summit of the nato leaders in bruszles on thursday to happen and he played a big role in getting that together, getting leaders all together in one room to talk about this and looking at the fact they're going to be meeting again in june, wolf, and it's likely going to be an issue at the top of their age...

The white house to speed up processing to get refugees who would like to come to the united states who have families there, and he also raise and idea almost rejected by the white house last week of an international peace-keeping mission in ukraine. that would be something that would require u.s. forces and nato forces to go into ukraine and something the white house says they do not believe it would work, but whether it gets brought up in the meeting today will be very interesting. >> reporter: white house officials are sensitive to the fact that so far what they're hearing from ukrainians is...

Going on in warsaw. we were in brussels at the nato summit. they're watching all of this very, very carefully. but at the same time, steve, clearly, you've got to give the ukrainian leadership, president zelenskyy and the government and military a lot of credit because they're clearly taking advantage of some major military wins. >> reporter: yeah, most definitely, wolf. certainly on the battlefield. they're exceeding expectations. as zelenskyy reminded us of that the other day, hey, don't let anybody tell you or accuse us of not being nato-ready. we're the ones out there fighting the russians...

Takes care of the troops. it helps with morale, something you see lacking with the russian troops. they also replaced all the old soviet generals with some of the young officers, and this was done by ukraine as it was trying to prove it could be a member of nato. they also drilled over and over and over exactly what they would do in case of a russian invasion, and one of the things they did was combined specialized operation forces together with their conventional forces and drew things like how to draw the russians into an ambush. that's the kind of thing we see them doing ore and over right ...

Russian general has suggested what was said on the battlefield so far has been a deliberate diversion, a distraction to weaken the forces. he said russia is approaching an encircling the bigger cities not that it wants to take it but in an effort to tie down ukraine forces. once that's done russia can tie down what he says is control of the eastern country in the so-called donbas region, where russia has recognized the independence of two breakaway republics there. all of this is very different to what much of the world, to what experts say russia has been trying to achieve here in recent week...