Putin's War: Day 13

• Poland, in a move which might force NATO into the war, now wants to offer the Ukraine two dozen MiG aircraft stationed in US bases in Germany.  This would almost certainly be seen as a provocation by Putin...
• Poland blindsided the USA with the offer, and I'd have to think it's because they want NATO in this war, whatever the cost -- figuring Putin will wear down Europe, bit by bit, if they don't.
• ... a Putin who appears to have significant allies in both the Middle East and in China to rebuff American and First World sanctions.
• Some experts in the Ukraine believe that the country already has the planes, as arranged, but that all this posturing is a bluff, because of the nature of escalation this would represent.
• The list of companies ceasing business in Russia is growing significantly by the day -- Coca-Cola, Starbucks, etc.
• So much so that all foreign currency sales in Russia will be stopped for six months, to try to save the ruble.
• At least one Russian gymnast was seen on the medal stand of a competition with a Ukranian -- the Russian had put on a shirt with a Z on it -- a war symbol meaning victory.
• Nuclear-watchdog supervision over the Chernobyl power plant has been lost -- indicating a very real chance the Russians have either taken the plant or fully scuttled it.
• In a mimic of the UK person arrested for attacking the Russian Embassy in one of the UK nations earlier, someone has rammed the Polish Embassy in Washington (probably a right-wing Putin supporter in this country).
• Two Patriot missile batteries are headed to Poland.
• Artyam Pryimenko, a 16-year-old Ukranian national champion in sambo, was murdered with his entire family in an airstrike today.