News Wrap: Zelenskyy warns conflict with Russia will spread without more aid

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• John Yang:

  Ukraine`s president called on the United States to provide more funding in his country`s ongoing war with Russia. President Biden has pressed Congress to pass a spending bill that includes billions in weapons aid for Ukraine. But so far, only a bill with money for Israel is advancing in Congress.

  On NBC`s 'Meet the Press,' president Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned that without additional help, the conflict will spread. He spoke in both English and Ukrainian.

• Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukrainian President:

  If Russia will kill all of us, they will attack NATO countries, and you will send your sons and daughters, and it will be. I`m sorry, but the price will be higher.

• Volodymyr Zelenskyy (through translator):

  Ukraine is defending both the European Union and the European continent and our common values.

• John Yang:

  The Russian military reported today it has successfully test launched an intercontinental ballistic missile designed to carry nuclear warheads. Video from the Russian Defense Ministry shows it launching from a new nuclear submarine somewhere in Russia`s northern White Sea. It`s not clear when the test took place.

  Voters went to the polls in Moldova today for nationwide local elections amid claims of Russian meddling. The former Soviet Republic sits between Romania and Ukraine and last year became a candidate for E.U. membership.

  Today`s vote will elect nearly 900 mayors and 11,000 local councilors. Authorities there maintain Russia has been conducting hybrid warfare to undermine the vote. And two days ago, the prime minister announced a ban on candidates from a pro-Russian party.

  And there are two new winners at the New York City Marathon and one new course record.

  Tamirat Tola of Ethiopia won the men`s race in 2 hours, four minutes, and 58 seconds. That`s 8 seconds faster than the record set in 2011. In the women`s race, it came down to the final stretch when Hellen Obiri of Kenya pulled ahead to win. She also won the Boston Marathon in April.

  Still to come on PBS News Weekend, a look at description and over the counter drug shortages across the country and the story of the first Native American to earn a medical degree.