alliance saying a ukrainian air defense missile is likely what caused the death of two people. the nato secretary-general is adding this. let me be clear. this is not ukraine s fault. russia bears ultimate responsibility as it continues its illegal war against ukraine. joining me now is kirk volcker, ambassador, thank you for being here. what do you think of the response from stoltenberg, from nato so far as this investigation is underway? i think this speaking well of nato. first thing, no one jumped to a conclusion. we need to understand exactly what happened. that appears to be progressing.
as well as the united states who have been actually working on trying to piece together forensically exactly what happened, where the with that were from. there have been words fro various people saying it was essentially reached the conclusion that this was not a russian rocket attack on polish territory, but instead a ukrainian antimissile defense system, which basically overshot its system. they re suggesting that the ukrainian missile successfully managed to knock out a russian missile.
t the, this was a missile that was fired from ukraine, according to two u.s. officials that briefed our white house team. this does increasingly look like ukrainian air defense that errantly went into poland. we did hear from president biden. he has been attending the g-20 summit in bali, indonesia. he convened as emergency meeting with allies, and said that g-7 allies, as well as nato are in total unanimity about the need for answers, but he did say it is unlikely that the missiles originated in russia. take a listen. we re going to make sure we figure out exactly what happened. it s unlikely in the minds of the trajectory that it was fired from russia.
what do you think of that mistake? does it surprise you? it doesn t surprise me, because ukraine is under attack by russia all the time. yesterday was a particularly bad day. it would be a logical conclusion to think one of those missile went astray and actually landed in poland. we still haven t seen all the data yesterday. ukrainians been asking for access to inspect the site itself. i think we ll see more details dumb out over time. poland has refrained from invoking article 4th, that any nato country can question request a formal inquiry. does that tell you anything about what s believed here, what s going to happen going forward? i think what it shows, two tloings. one, we don t believe that russia actually wants to attack a nato ally. nato itself does not want to be in a war with russia.
reporter: we heard from lloyd austin also, that they are trying to come up with answers. you ukrainian military has told the u.s. they did fire a missile, attempt to go intercept a russian it s important to emphasize this dame on a today i when ukraine was so no one is saying that ukraine is respond for this. ultimately nato and u.s. officials say russia bears responsibility here. president biden is on his way back to the united states after holding that emergency meeting. what is are hearing from there this morning, arlette.