obviously this is a major wrinkle the that the president will be dealing with in the days and hours ahead. rosemary? russia is denying its fired its missile into poland, what is the latest on russia s reaction. this is the latest alison, the russian federation presented to the united nations. essentially as it reiterated moscow s denial of having any involvement in the missile incident in polls polish territory. and the russian representative to the u.s. said earlier in the statement that this was an attempt to provoke a direct military clash between nato and russia. and it also made it clear that this is likely to dominate and certainly be built up by russia as well at the security council meeting taking place later on today. but before that new security council meeting took place, in a few hours from now, we re gonna have the meeting that will take place in brussels where the members of nato, that
and that becomes a critical thing for the ukrainians to do, it also advances the goals of course of the western alliance. congressman, there s a russian diplomat warning today, u.s. military aid, like the package announced today. hastens a possibility of a military clash between russia and nato. are you worried about this conflict getting bigger than it is? especially given putin s unpredictability? well we always have to be diligent, to putin s erratic tendencies. he s certainly is desperate, now he is suffering domestic political pressure. the likes of which he has never actually seen during this tenure as president. so he is starting to do unusual things. so they have been or the administration has been looking at all the different scenarios, looking at the different contingencies. they ve had done this methodically, and deliberately, with an eye toward escalation. so we cannot at the end of the
the map right here, and the rangers that are possible, if you have himars located in areas like this, you can in essence, grab everything in these areas right here. and if you do that, this puts all of the russian forces in ukraine at risk. and that becomes a critical thing for the ukrainians to do, i also advances the goals of course of the western alliance. congressman, as a russian diplomat warning today, u.s. military aid, like the package announced today. hastens a possibility of a military clash between russia and nato. are you worried about this complex getting bigger than it is? especially given putin s unpredictability? well we always have to be diligent, to putin s erratic tendencies. he s certainly is desperate, now he is suffering domestic political pressure. the likes of which he has never actually seen during this tenure as president. so he is starting to do unusual
am. fred pleitgen, thanks for the update. a russian diplomat says u.n. military aid is advancing a direct military clash between russia and nato. the biden administration announced an additional $625 million in security aid. let s bring in cnn s scott mcclain live from london. how serious is his claim? this came from const constantine baranstov. he said these american supplied weapons are bringing closer the possibility of a direct conflict between russia and between nato. he also accused the ukrainians of using u.s.-supplied weapons to strike targets deep within russian-held territory. of course, the ukrainians have not acknowledged responsibility for any strikes on russian soil. of course, there has been plenty of worry since the outset of this conflict that there could be escalation. that worry is now more acute given the fact that as you mentioned earlier, christine,
of what? he can really take over control of our donetsk and luhansk s people s republic and it could become in any case, we don t control these territories and if we have russian troops, even better organised coexistence on both sides. it s really unlikely it s going to be put in s plan, otherwise there s basically no benefit he would gain. so a dangerous option is that he would try to take over a so called board areas of donetsk and luhansk, including controlled territories by our controlled government. this would lead to direct military clash and we would see a very serious war between the two sides, but which will be in the region of donbas. i’m