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Poland struck by missile during Russian barrage on Ukraine · DEEP INSIGHT

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  Speaker 1: Rescue operations are underway at this hour at multiple locations
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  Speaker 1: throughout Ukraine following a barrage of Russian strikes overnight. Official
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  Speaker 1: say at least eight people were killed across the country,
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  Speaker 1: and that includes six near President Zelenski's hometown. More than
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  Speaker 1: twenty others were wounded. Official say the death toll could
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  Speaker 1: go up as they scrambled to reach people who could
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  Speaker 1: possibly be trapped under this rubble. And all of this
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  Speaker 1: on the same night that the ominous sound of air
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  Speaker 1: raid sirens could be heard in neighboring Poland, which says
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  Speaker 1: that an unidentified object crashed and caused explosion deep inside
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  Speaker 1: its territory during those strikes, and this new video is
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  Speaker 1: said to show a large crater at the crash site.
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  Speaker 1: Russia's targets, including Kiev, where the attack demolished this market
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  Speaker 1: and killed one person there. Claire Sebastian keeping an eye
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  Speaker 1: on all those developments, she joins me live from London. Claire,
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  Speaker 1: what if we could start with this unidentified projectile that
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  Speaker 1: was reported in Poland? Is there any new indication on
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  Speaker 1: the source of it? Possibly Russia?
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  Speaker 2: Well, look, I think authorities in Poland and in Ukraine
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  Speaker 2: likely as well, are still trying to work out exactly
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  Speaker 2: what happened here, But what we know at this moment
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  Speaker 2: is that the Polish military said overnight it was monitoring
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  Speaker 2: at least a dozen it said missiles over western Ukraine
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  Speaker 2: that they said could pose a threat to Polish airspace.
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  Speaker 2: Then at one point after three o'clock in the morning,
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  Speaker 2: they noted that one unidentified object had crossed into Polish airspace.
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  Speaker 2: It then promptly disappeared from the radar, and Polish police
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  Speaker 2: then said that they found wreckage, a crater and scattered
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  Speaker 2: debris maybe in those pictures that we're showing now in
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  Speaker 2: a village. We think we can show you a map
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  Speaker 2: of roughly where that crater is located, about ninety kilometers
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  Speaker 2: or so from the border, so this is fairly deep
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  Speaker 2: into Poland mounting of course, the concern around this. The
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  Speaker 2: Ukrainian Foreign Minister is saying that a Russian cage on
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  Speaker 2: one cruise missile crossed into Polish territory. We don't know
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  Speaker 2: if it's the same missile that made that crater. It's
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  Speaker 2: still at this point an unidentified object that we're dealing
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  Speaker 2: with here, and there's no way to know, of course,
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  Speaker 2: if this was deliberate or targeted. These are cruise missiles,
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  Speaker 2: if it was one, high precision weapons. But still that
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  Speaker 2: work is still ongoing to determine what happened there. But
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  Speaker 2: it does come after a spate of warnings from Poland,
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  Speaker 2: from the Baltic countries, those closest to Russia of the
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  Speaker 2: higher potential at this point in the war for Russian provocations,
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  Speaker 2: hybrid or other types of attack. The Polish Prime Minister
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  Speaker 2: don Or Tusk warned just a few weeks ago that
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  Speaker 2: Poland was preparing for every scenario. He didn't want to
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  Speaker 2: scare anyone, he said, but those intensive preparations were underway.
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  Speaker 2: No reaction from NATO as of yet. Poland is, of
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  Speaker 2: course a NATO member, but we are keeping an eye
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  Speaker 2: out for that. And of course this highlights very clearly
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  Speaker 2: the risks, the spillover risks of this war, especially as
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  Speaker 2: these aerial attacks, these overnight aerial attacks escalate.
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  Speaker 1: In terms of the latest strikes that we've seen launch,
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  Speaker 1: specifically in Kiev. Clear I'm wondering if Vicobras have to
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  Speaker 1: speed on what we're learning there.
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  Speaker 2: So look, this was a pretty major overnight attack, even
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  Speaker 2: with that projectile crossing into Polan, and we can't lose
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  Speaker 2: sight of the damage that it was inflicted on Ukraine.
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  Speaker 2: Multiple different areas of Ukraine were affected. And it comes,
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  Speaker 2: of course, thirty six hours or so after President Zelenski
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  Speaker 2: was in the White House with Donald Trump making an
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  Speaker 2: urgent plea for more help when it comes specifically to
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  Speaker 2: air defenses. I think it's notable because previously when we've
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  Speaker 2: seen meetings between Trump and Zelensky, President Putin has tried
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  Speaker 2: to get in and speak to Trump as well. We
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  Speaker 2: didn't see that this time. Instead, we simply see more escalation,
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  Speaker 2: this aggressive posture from the Russian sides. What we know
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  Speaker 2: at this point about this attack is at least eight
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  Speaker 2: people were killed, dozens more injured Across the country are
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  Speaker 2: several notable incidents. In creevy Ree, which is Lenski's hometown,
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  Speaker 2: a missile hit a residential home, killing five members of
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  Speaker 2: one family according to officials there, including three children. And
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  Speaker 2: I want to bring footage as well from Leviv all
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  Speaker 2: the way over in western Ukraine. Dramatic video if we
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  Speaker 2: can show it, of a boy being pulled out of
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  Speaker 2: a damaged building. City authority say that he was born
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  Speaker 2: in twenty twenty and he survived, but with fractures to
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  Speaker 2: his leg, so very widespread. And of course we're in
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  Speaker 2: the final days now of what is the deadliest month
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  Speaker 2: for Ukrainian civilians since April of twenty twenty two.
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  Speaker 1: Where we're joined now by Peters Almayav. He's a director
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  Speaker 1: of the Eurasia Democracy Initiative. Peter's good to see you,
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  Speaker 1: good morning, good morning to you. I wonder if we
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  Speaker 1: could just get started with this. What we're now learning
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  Speaker 1: is what you make of this unidentified projectile that hit
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  Speaker 1: near a Polish village some ninety five kilometers west of
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  Speaker 1: Ukraine's border, so that's certainly towards the country's interior. To
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  Speaker 1: add to that, Ukraine's Foreign minister went on ix saying
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  Speaker 1: that a Russian cruise missile went into Polish airspace. In
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  Speaker 1: terms of what we know, even if it was unintentional,
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  Speaker 1: could that come with some natal consequence is for Russia.
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  Speaker 3: Probably not, And that's precisely why Russia is doing it.
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  Speaker 3: If it's doing it, we don't have one hundred percent
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  Speaker 3: confirmation of that yet, but it's quite likely and it's
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  Speaker 3: happened before over Polish air space, over the airspace of Romania,
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  Speaker 3: that Russia is actually provoking these countries like it may
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  Speaker 3: have been in this case to once again proved that
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  Speaker 3: NATA will simply sit doing nothing. I mean, there's this
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  Speaker 3: mechanism Article five Collective Security that dictates that a strike
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  Speaker 3: against one NATO member is a strike against them all.
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  Speaker 3: They would have to respond. But Putin is sort of,
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  Speaker 3: you know, skirting around the edges with plausible deniability that
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  Speaker 3: it's not his missile, while at the same time showing
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  Speaker 3: NATO up for what it is and in effectual as
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  Speaker 3: put In at least believes organization that will not stand
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  Speaker 3: up for its members. So this may have been yet
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  Speaker 3: another such provocation and a test.
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  Speaker 1: What do you make of the time in ow so
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to these latest barrage of Russian strikes
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  Speaker 1: against uh not throughout parts of Ukraine, including where you
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  Speaker 1: are there in Kiev. I mean the timing of this.
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  Speaker 1: This is just days after President Zelensky had what's been
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  Speaker 1: described by the US and Ukraine as a positive meeting
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  Speaker 1: with President Trump.
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  Speaker 3: Not just the timing, but let's start with the geography.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, the entire territory of Ukraine was struck. It
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  Speaker 3: seems like Putin had been accumulating enough missiles and drones
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  Speaker 3: to attack the entirety of Ukraine, including the westernmost town
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  Speaker 3: noble Viv, which is has been kind of a hubb
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  Speaker 3: of that whole area for the processing of Western supplied weaponry.
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  Speaker 3: That's probably another signal from Putin. But if we look
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  Speaker 3: at the timing, it happened after by all accounts, Zelenski's
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  Speaker 3: triumphant visit to Washington, at least, you know, judging or
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  Speaker 3: comparing with the low standard of that meeting last year
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  Speaker 3: when Trump said that Zelenski had no cards. Well, this time, uh,
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  Speaker 3: this was quite a triumph. And it looks like the
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  Speaker 3: spirit of anchorage. Whatever the Russians are, you know, continuing
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  Speaker 3: to refer to whatever, you know, agreements there may have
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  Speaker 3: been between Puttin and Trump, they're no longer there. They
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  Speaker 3: have evaporated. And so Putin is really seething, uh, that
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  Speaker 3: he's lost the initiative, not just on the front lines
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  Speaker 3: but internationally. Uh. And of course let's not forget that,
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  Speaker 3: you know, you know, Ukraine has found an ability to
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  Speaker 3: strike ever deeper into Russia. Russia is burning practically every day.
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  Speaker 3: All refinery facilities are going up in smoke. Logistical hubs
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  Speaker 3: are going up in smoke. This is a way for
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  Speaker 3: Puddin once again to assert himself, to show his strength,
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  Speaker 3: and he has no other options but to escalate and
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  Speaker 3: increase terror against civilians because the situation on the front lines,
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  Speaker 3: like I said, is static, the advance is very slow.
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  Speaker 3: Putin cannot and has not been able to show any
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  Speaker 3: spectacular successes there.
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  Speaker 1: Peter's in mid If. We wish you continued safety of course,
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  Speaker 1: as we continue to follow this. Thank you Peter