The first thing that caught my eye this morning was this:
It’s Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorsky floating the batshit idea of Ukraine allowing the United Nations to govern Crimea until legal residents there decide what country they are citizens of.
My immediate reaction: Let’s return Białystok to Belarus and turn over governance of the province to a NATO-led international peacekeeping force that replaces Lukashenko in 2025.
Z says his Victory Plan is 100% complete. Wonderful!
The President’s Office hasn’t shared with Ukrainians details about proposals included in the plan because Team USA is likely to reject many of them. Senior Ukrainian officials granted anonymity by news organizations because they are not authorized to talk about the plan will inform us later in exclusive investigations whether it jives with the classified Ukraine Strategy sent from the White House to Congress last week. Or not. It doesn’t really matter because sources will be anonymous.
New expanding (westward) pink blobs and pincer movements on our war map.
Meanwhile, Team Ukraine contrinues to control about 5% of Russia’s Kursk region, the equivalent of about 5% of the US state of Maryland. US officials, speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations, say they want more info about Ukraine’s war objectives.
Team USA remains unenthusiastic about sharing TERCOM (Terrain Contour Matching) datasets for long-range missile strikes deep into Russia before Ukraine’s security clearance is un-revoked.
Team USA maintains Ukraine already can strike deep into Russia with its own drones and missiles, as evidenced in yesterday’s demolition of a gigantic arms depot in Toropets, a town in Russia’s Tver region.