Leaders discuss efforts to support Ukraine
ahead of the one year mark of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Vice President Kamala Harris and Secretary of State Antony Blinken are at the Munich Security Conference. It also comes as the Biden administration faces growing pressure from lawmakers to provide fighter jets for the Ukrainian war efforts. NBC's Alice Barr has more from Washington. Vice President Kamala Harris on the world stage today at the Munich Security Conference, hanging over the global gathering the approaching anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and heightened tensions over the Chinese spy balloon. In an NBC News exclusive, Vice President Harris telling Andrea Mitchell that while the U.S.-China relationship has not fundamentally changed.
Surely and certainly that balloon was not helpful. The vice president saying the U.S. had to shoot it down. Because we were confident that it was used by China to spy on the American people. It comes one day after President Biden told NBC's Peter Alexander in another exclusive that quote, I think the last thing that Chinese president Xi Jinping wants is to fundamentally rip the relationship with the United States and with me. Meanwhile, Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky urging allies at the Munich conference to speed up military support ahead of Russian President Vladimir Putin's expected spring offensive.
He can still destroy many lives, many. That is why we need to hurry up. Amid concerns over House Republicans commitment to Ukraine's security spending, GOP Senator Lindsey Graham in Munich offering this assurance. I'm a Republican. I promise you there will be bipartisan resolve to keep the assistance going. Just today, a bipartisan group of House members urging President Biden to send F-16 fighter jets to give Ukraine an upper hand against a sustained and brutal assault. In Washington, Alice Barr, NBC News.
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