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Has ul straited how critical the threat is to the countries. thank you for all your reporting over the last few days. now let's get on to moscow. fred pleitgen is there. the president putin met with the top diplomat. what was the point of that m meeting at this juncture in the war in ukraine? >> reporter: i think it underscores just how important china is for russia, especially with all the sanctions that russia is now under from the united states and also europe countries as well. obviously, china has become politically and economically more important over the course of the past year. and n...

US President Joe Biden made a surprise trip to Kyiv to meet his counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the highest-profile visit since Russia invaded and a strong show of support for Ukraine before the war’s one-year mark on Friday.

That comes as real questions are happening in washington about how long that aid will continue since there are skeptical republicans what that looks like. i talked to mike mckaul saying he is convinced to get another funding request through that congress. >> we will see. alex, of there in ukraine, they expect this war to really start ramping up and looking for tangible things to come on the ground to help them with that effort. >> reporter: yeah. this is a pivotal moment. no doubt. two things that ukraine fears is fatigue and waning support. u.s. officials argue just last month two weapons aid...

China than their claims it was just a weather balloon that went astray. they gave it complete safe passage all across the sun country to surveilled all that china wanted and then shot it down. >> it really did seemed like an odd flex to go in and admit that it was loitering over our country for days, they knew about it but i want to ask you this he finally meets with the china diplomat. we know before that before the whole balloon debacle blew up in the news because of the gazette had to uncover it, we know they wanted to go over it meet with china and they had to delay it a little bit. but no...

The US has now sent nearly $27 billion in arms to Kiev since last February, with its allies chipping in over $9 billion more.