correspondent jonathan marcus. he has been covering this for a long time. we ve heard from stephen as well as the latest lines coming in from azadeh about the developing situations and ijust want about the developing situations and i just want to get your thoughts on what the possible escalations of this might be. you re quite right. i think caution is the watchword here. i think we can probably rule out a deliberate russian attack on poland. that would be extraordinary, that would really be making a drama out of a crisis. i think this is some kind of accident, either russian missiles have been inadvertently crossed the border into poland and struck a target, or possibly also, ukrainian s 300 air defence missiles trying to intercept russian attacking missiles have
in the newsroom. let s bring in the director of the us programme for the international crisis group, stephen pump up, a former council adviser who oversold un affairs in the white house during the 0bama administration. oversaw. 6reat administration. oversaw. great to get you on the programme, and still a lot we don t know at this stage. what don t know at this stage. what do you make of the possible explanations behind this? i think there is a lot that we don t know, and so i think it s wise and prudent that most of the high level communication has focused on the need to be responsible fact finding before people jump to any conclusions about what happened. 6enerally, it s been heartening to see that that has been a sort of consistent theme among leaders of nato. ~ . .