Who fired the missile into Poland?
Ukrainecast
BBC
4.7 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2022
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
After a fraught few hours, Nato said the missile that hit Poland - one of its members - was most likely fired by Ukraine in defence. The organisation says it was not intentional.
We hear reaction from Ukraine, the US and Russia, with analysis from the BBC’s Security Correspondent Frank Gardner and Sam de Bendern , a political analyst with Chatham House and a former adviser to Nato.
We also hear a moving account of life on the front line from a team of Ukrainian medics in the Donbas.
Today’s episode is presented by the BBC’s chief international correspondent, Lyse Doucet, and Vitaliy Shevchenko, the head of the BBC’s Russia monitoring team.
The producers were Arsenii Sokolov, Clare Williamson, Luke Radcliff and Fiona Leach. The technical coordinator was Mike Regaard. The series producer is Estelle Doyle. The assistant editor is Alison Gee. And the editor is Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC sounds, music, radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.0 | It's 266 days since Russia invaded Ukraine, and the last 24 hours have been dramatic, |
| 0:13.3 | fraught with tension and risk, and there have been some developments since we recorded |
| 0:18.8 | an extra Ukraine cast earlier today. |
| 0:22.2 | How did it all begin? |
| 0:23.6 | A Tuesday evening, a missile landed in Poland, a NATO member killing two people. |
| 0:33.1 | NATO ambassadors held an emergency meeting this morning and afterwards, the leader of the |
| 0:38.7 | Alliance Jens Stoltenberg held a press conference. |
| 0:42.2 | We have no indication that this was the result of a deliberate attack, and we have no indication |
| 0:49.7 | that Russia is preparing offensive military actions against NATO. |
| 0:56.6 | Our preliminary analysis suggests that the incident was likely caused by a Ukrainian |
| 1:04.1 | air defense missile fired to defend Ukrainian territory against Russian-Cruis missile attacks. |
| 1:12.2 | But let me be clear, this is not Ukraine's fault. |
| 1:16.8 | Russia bears ultimate responsibility as it continues its illegal war against Ukraine. |
| 1:25.4 | So what happened? |
| 1:26.6 | Why did it happen? |
| 1:27.8 | What did Russia say and what will NATO do next? |
| 1:31.4 | This is Ukraine cast. |
| 1:34.1 | Ukraine costs from business. |
| 1:37.6 | The question for us now is to be or not to be. |
| 1:41.4 | I'm ordering the Ministry of Defence to put the strategic nuclear forces on special |
| 1:46.2 | alert. |
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