the strike is said to have landed in poland, which is a nato country about three miles from the polish ukraine border. we saw an enormous barrage earlier today, 85 missiles raining down across ukraine. flames pouring out of apartment buildings in kyiv. you can see the images that we re showing you as the explosions were felt earlier today. first responders out everywhere trying to respond to these. you had power knocked out across the country. russia targeted the key energy infrastructure. former u.s. ambassador to nato, kirk volcker us in just a moment. first to greg palkot on the ground in kyiv. good afternoon to you. what can you tell us? good afternoon, martha. yeah, let s get to the breaking news. it s potentially very
that comes with it a more moderate red response. we ll watch all that. i m sure you ll dig into that, too. back to you. martha: thanks so much, greg palkot in kyiv where there were missiles raining down across the country earlier today. we want to bring in kirk volcker. ambassador, thanks very much. it s good to have you with us as we go through this breaking news. we re told the white house is in touch with officials in poland. they re working to confirm this. we re told that sergey lavrov who was at the g-20 meetings has left and been replaced by another official from russia. what is your initial response to what you ve heard so far, ambassador? well, first off, i think the most likely scenario is that russia was trying to attack ukraine as they do every day. made a mistake and accidentally fired missiles into poland. we need to find this out.
the activities with ukraine. and the united states among other positions you hold in the united states senate. we have this document that came out, president s phone call, a transcript of it. with the president of ukraine. back in july. people are trying to democrats in media in particular, say that president was seeking a quid pro quo. i don t read this in here, you have some back ground on this. you had a meeting with president and others in may this year. in just that transcript, i read, that i think it is a gracious phone call on part of the president. i went to ukraine in may 20. to attend the inauguration of president zelensky, i went with secretary perry, gordon sondland and kirk volcker.
be released. that is where he made ad adamant angry devil denial. he said no way, i would do that, who told you that. i felt a little guilty, it was gordon, i went to record last friday. with the wall street journal, laying that out after text between gordon son sondland and kirk volcker were made public. out of the blue, he didn t know i was going to raise that issue, his immediate reaction, adamant, angry denial, i would never do that. i thought it was important to get that fact out on the table. mark: this is crucial, i want to underscore the point in maemi me says i am concerned it is corrupt, why doesn t europe step up. you talked to him august 31, the
and kirk volcker. we were the delegation. we felt it was important coming back, we were impressed with zelensky, he thought it was important to meet with the president, get him supportive of ukraine. we had a meeting in oal office may 23, this year, making a cup points. and appoint a ambassador that could get strong bipartisan support, we were encouraging president to show strong support for the people of ukraine. i was surprised at the president s reaction. which has been consistent throughout, he talked about level of corruption in ukraine. there is all kinds of spoke about milwauke mill hillary clin campaign. president zelensky got a mandated from ukrainian people to end corruption in ukraine.