WAR IN UKRAINE – DAY 13 UPDATE

Polish officials have denied that Poland is planning to provide fighter jets to Ukraine upon US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s remarks that an arrangement was ongoing and that Washington had given Poland the “green light”. Meanwhile, Russia’s central bank claims that credit cards issued by Russian banks using the Visa and Mastercard payment systems will stop functioning overseas after March 9 leading some local lenders to turn to China’s UnionPay system. The Biden administration permitted a 9/11 Al Qaeda terrorist to be transferred from a Guantanamo Bay prison after 20 years and sent back to Saudi Arabia for “mental health” treatment, and DC’s Beltway turns into a parking lot as truckers protest an end to COVID mandates.