is behind this, whatever s caused it, whatever sort of accident has occurred here, we assume that means there has been at least a fragment of missiles which have landed on polish territories and taken lives. that will confirm people s worst fears, whether it was intentional or not. the conflict in ukraine has the potential to spill over and to cause issues here in poland, which is nato. this is very close to the spot wherejoe biden landed at the beginning of april in air force one. that was a show of support for the polish people, for people right across eastern europe who are concerned at that time, a show of support for nato, a message that nato would be with these nations that border ukraine should the conflict spill out of that country. now, these reports are unconfirmed we need to say that. we need to find out exactly what has happened, what has caused this loss of life, but it will cause major concern to people here. life is still going on here
consistent theme among leaders ofnato. ., ., , of nato. what are the possible implications of nato. what are the possible implications of of nato. what are the possible implications of this of nato. what are the possible implications of this strike? - implications of this strike? with the caveats that this fact finding is still continuing with my if you could play out the next steps are us? this is a very serious situation, and for many of the reasons that your correspondence have described. first of all, poland is a member of the nato, where the members are bound to each other. if there is an armed attack. there is flexibility within that commitment coming to the assistance of a member state can mean a lot of different things. nevertheless, nato is a very powerful alliance. if it came into direct conflict with russia, things could isolate quite significantly. it sjust
the statement also claimed that there had been no strikes using russian weapons on targets near the ukrainian polish border although of course we although of course we there was this massive russian bombardment today across ukraine. at times like this, at times of crisis and this is a dangerous moment what you need are channels of communication between the opposing sides. you need one side to be able to pick up the phone and talk to the other. we know relations are bad between russia and the west, nato and america, but these channels of communication do exist, and only yesterday, russia s spy chief met his us counterpart, the cia director, for talks. reportedly, they talked about how to avoid nuclear escalation here in the ukraine war. so, you would expect that these kind of moments, conversations would be had you would hope so between russia and the west to find out what actually
przewodow. the ministry spokesperson has added the ambassador to poland has been summoned to give him what he thought immediately details about the incidents. both scientists have used russian made ammunition. both sides. we re still gathering information about exactly what happened, and it will be a big topic as it gets under way today. what is important is the polish president speaking in the past few minutes has said he does think it was a one off incident and it won t happen again. but poland would be likely to trigger article 4 of nato tomorrow. all this comes as russian forces have launched waves of missile strikes across a wide area of ukraine,
reiterates the uk s solidarity with poland and express condolences for the victims. he says its government will remain in close contact and will co ordinate with nato allies. lots to discuss as that 620 summit gets under way here. the bbc s danjohnson is in krakow and had this to say about the reports of missiles landing in poland. this is exactly what people in the east of poland had feared right at the start of the war. when i was reporting here at the beginning of the conflict through the early weeks during march, particularly, people in this city and closer to the ukraine border were really worried about that conflict spilling over, either deliberately or accidentally. we saw more poles signing up for the territorial defence force. we saw them preparing for in case there were attacks that came across onto their territory. we saw people packing their cars, packing clothes, ready to flee further west. now, the tension has eased after the early weeks of the invasion. that threat hasn