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Gavin Grey: UK & Europe correspondent on Russian attack on Ukraine prompting quick action from Poland · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Kevin grays our men in the UK Poland scrambling as
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  Speaker 1: air force because of these massive Russian attacks on Ukraine.
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  Speaker 1: That's just as winter's coming, right s given, we'll just.
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  Speaker 2: Try and sort of force Ukraine into a miserable winter,
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  Speaker 2: and of course it does get bitterly cold there if
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  Speaker 2: they knock out all these power plants. Now, we've just
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  Speaker 2: heard in the last few minutes that the death toll
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  Speaker 2: of those overnight strikes missile and drone attacks from Russia
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  Speaker 2: killed ten people, has just gone up from seven and
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  Speaker 2: there are of course others in hospital. And indeed it
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  Speaker 2: was the largest coordinated assault since early September. One hundred
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  Speaker 2: and twenty missiles and ninety drones were launched. So what
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  Speaker 2: is the response from Europe. Well, Poland, Ukraine's neighbor on
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  Speaker 2: the western side, scrambled fighter jets to patron its own airspace.
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  Speaker 2: And that is because some of these drones, some of
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  Speaker 2: the missiles will go into the westernmost part of Ukraine,
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  Speaker 2: in other words, very near to Poland and also Hungry,
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  Speaker 2: which neighbors both Ukraine and Poland, also on a lord
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  Speaker 2: with drone attacks just twenty kilometers from the border, and
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  Speaker 2: the country's Defense minister. They're saying the situation is being
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  Speaker 2: monitored continuously.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, two and a half he is under this war.
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  Speaker 1: What's the vibe because obviously Trump's come in he says
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to end at You had Zelenski at the
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  Speaker 1: weekend saying if anyone can end it, you know, Trump
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  Speaker 1: has a bit of chance of ending it. Given as ritric.
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  Speaker 1: Then perhaps Biden did this talk of a DMZ zone
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  Speaker 1: between the countries of Ukraine agreeing not to join NATO
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  Speaker 1: for twenty years. What's the vibe? Is it likely?
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  Speaker 2: I think here in Europe the concern is Donald Trump
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  Speaker 2: will simply turned the tap off, either completely or largely
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  Speaker 2: on aid to Ukraine, financial aid and military aid. And
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  Speaker 2: then the big question is will Europe step up to
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  Speaker 2: the plate and fill the void. They said they will,
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  Speaker 2: but well, plenty of you're skeptical about that. And indeed
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  Speaker 2: the German Chancellor, the leader of Germany, on our Schultz,
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  Speaker 2: he put a call in to Vladimir Putin. They spoke
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  Speaker 2: for over an hour. It was the first time they
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  Speaker 2: were spoken directly for nearly two years, and it infuriated
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  Speaker 2: many in Europe who believed that the opportunity for diplomacy
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  Speaker 2: has gone. There should be no appeasement and indeed they
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  Speaker 2: should step up the support of Ukraine.
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  Speaker 1: Interesting Givin thank you for that. Givin Gray are UK
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  Speaker 1: europe correspondents.
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