What do we know about the Polish missile tragedy?
Coffee House Shots
The Spectator
4.4 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2022
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Cindy Yu speaks with James Forsyth and Katy Balls.
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| 0:16.7 | Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, |
| 0:18.4 | the Spectators' Daily Politics Podcast. |
| 0:20.5 | I'm Cindy U and I'm joined by James Versailles and Katie Bors. |
| 0:23.8 | So last night, a missile seems to have struck two Polish people |
| 0:28.1 | on the border between Poland and Ukraine, killing both of them, |
| 0:31.1 | leading to lots of questions about what exactly happened and fears that this is |
| 0:34.8 | a Russian attack on a NATO country. |
| 0:36.6 | But James, what do we know about the situation at the moment? |
| 0:39.8 | So I think the Polish President has said that it appears to have been an unfortunate, |
| 0:45.9 | accident, not an intentional attack. |
| 0:48.4 | And although the Polish investigation hasn't finished yet, |
| 0:51.5 | it seems that the most likely explanation is for the Ukrainian air defense missile |
| 0:55.8 | trying to take down a Russian missile attacking Ukraine, |
| 0:59.6 | has landed on Polish territory, hit this silo, |
| 1:02.8 | and the resulting explosion has tragically killed two people. |
| 1:07.0 | I think you can't get away from the facts, |
| 1:09.0 | but there's an ultimate responsibility for this lies with Russia for the fact that |
| 1:12.4 | if they were not loosening off missiles at civilian targets in Ukraine, |
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