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our panel, but he's all of you for joining us. >> i'm crazy. how don't go anywhere seen in central starts right now cnn breaking good morning, everyone. >> and we do have breaking news. president biden, just moments ago speaking as he is sitting alongside ukrainian president zelenskyy ahead they critical bilateral meeting that they are now. that's now taking place right now. they're both in france as we know, the president has been there to mark an honor the greatest generation, the 80th the anniversary of d-day. and he has been making the connections of the threats to democracy and ...

House leadership, whether or not it was going to approve any new weapons packages and you're absolutely right, omar, i was on the ground in ukraine when all of this started happening and when the ukrainians, i think it was in september of last year, those ammo applies, especially a really became very scarce. they had to ration some of the ammunition. they were very low on artillery shells. and it was very difficult for them. they felt all but abandoned by western nations, specifically by the united states because there's simply wasn't enough animal coming through i think what we saw just there...

31% increase in civilian casualties and may compared to april, we have cnn's fred pleitgen joining us now on this for president biden is vowing to stand by ukraine as the country is facing a critical point in this war yeah, he's certainly isn't. >> i think that's something that's extremely important, of course, for the ukrainians to here. and i think also quite frankly the frank that the president went and apologize to the ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy in that meeting that took place was also very important for the ukrainians as well, because of course, one of the things that they ha...

Zelenskyy would even show up to the summit. >> reporter: that's right. we didn't really know. we didn't have any confirmation from his office until until later this afternoon our time then of course he popped up in lithuania with some softer language. not completely soft, but softer than that initial tweet where he called the nato statement on possible ukrainian membership absurd. look, there is huge support for joining nato in this country. even the defense minister was asked about this today. he said it's great we've gotten these weapons packages, these promises from france for long range we...

EXCLUSIVE: Express.co.uk spoke to Ukrainian opposition leader Kira Rudik about the significance of the UK's last week of weapons deliveries, including hundreds of air defence missiles, new long-range attack drones, with a range of more than 200km, and the Storm Shadow long-range missiles.