Turkeysyria border show a russian war plane on fire and crashing after it was shot down of night by a turkish jet and both pilots ejected right now and Russian Helicopters searching for one of them, the other is believed to be dead and welcome to your world this morning im stephanie sy. Im del walters. And it crossed in the air space and issued a number of warnings and moscow says it can prove they stayed over the skies of syria and we will have more but first to moscow and rory challenge and how is russia reacting to this latest news . Well, the russians choosing their words very carefully. Its interesting listening to what they have been saying over the last couple hours or so. The official response has come from first the Defense Ministry and then the kremlin. What they have been saying first of all is as you have just mentioned that this plane according to the russians never left is syrian air space. The other thing they said is at least initially are operating from the assumption
those are the kind of words we should be using. martha: dimitri paskov was asked if he would rule out nukes. watch this. we have a concept of domestic security. it s public. you can read all the reasons for nuclear arms to be used. so if it is an existing threat for our country, then it can be used in accordance with our constitution. martha: pretty clear, general, from dimitri paskov. sandra: it s brinksmanship. there s no threat in ukraine for sure. but could they make it out to be? they want us to believe that. there s probably likely many
to hear, not calling it an invasion but calling for talks, calling for a deescalation. i wouldn t be surprised to hear of humanitarian aid coming from china to the ukraine. they re absolutely driving that relationship with russia forward with china buying up russian oil and gas, buying up critical minerals, even russian coal and extending that economic life line. the question is do they provide military aid. we ll have to watch that through our intelligence community and have to watch it very carefully. martha: so dimitri paskov wants to make his feelings clear about what their response would be if nato would send in peace keeping forces into ukraine, which we ve seen in mariupol and other places that they could need. watch this. it would be a very reckless and extremely dangerous decision. we re conducting a special
tell us that there is really no response from the russian government, no official response. what we do have is a response from the russian foreign kremlin spokesperson dimitri paskov. he said now senior administration officials say they did coordinate with allies on this. you mentioned him, shep, more than 20 countries responding, kicking out more than 100 russian diplomats including the united states. the u.s. has said that the 60 russian diplomats really just supplies under diplomatic cover and the location of the consulate decided to chose in seattle. the reason they chose that is