The U.S. State Department has approved the possible Foreign Military Sale of PATRIOT Air Defense System Sustainment and related equipment, including the upgrade of M901 Launchers to the M903, to Ukraine for an estimated cost of $105 Million.

Tonight’s drone and missile attack by Russia was one of the largest of the war against cities in Western Ukraine, with cruise and ballistic missiles, as well as attack drones, heavily targeting Lviv, Ternopil, and Ivano-Frankivsk, with several drones possibly having entered Poland.

Thick smoke from a burning warehouse rises over the Western Ukrainian city of Lviv, following last night’s large-scale drone and missile attack by Russia against Ukraine.

Two German Eurofighter Typhoons and a pair of Romanian F-16s were scrambled this morning from Mihail Kogălniceanu and Câmpia Turzii Air Bases in Romania, after a Russian one-way attack drone violated Romanian Airspace during today’s attack on Ukraine. The drone initially entered Romania and flew roughly eight kilometres between Periprava and Chilia Veche in Tulcea County, before crossing back over into Ukraine, then Moldova, before finally reentering Romania and heading towards Foltești in Galați where its radar signal was lost by the Romanian Air Force.

At least two killed in today’s Russian drone and missile attack on the Western Ukrainian city of Ternopil.

Poland has announced that it will be closing the last remaining Russian consulate in the country, located within the city of Gdańsk, in response to Sunday’s act of sabotage against critical railway lines in Poland, which was reportedly carried out by operatives with the Russian Security Services (FSB) who have since fled into Belarus.

U.S. Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll has published a memo titled “Just Pick Up During the Holidays” that is truly a great read and should be followed by every other military branch. The Holidays is a great time for many, but it’s also one of the hardest times of the year for many Servicemembers. Be sure to check on your Battle Buddies Squad, Squadron, and Shipmates during Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years, you never know what someone may be going through until it is too late.

According to the Financial Times’ @ChristopherJM, the 28-point peace proposal being secretly and hastily discussed between President Trump’s Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Russian Envoy Kirill Dmitriev are just the maximum demands previously given by Russia, which includes cutting the Ukraine Army in half, giving up certain long-range weapons and other equipment considered a threat by Russia, the surrender of both the Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts in Eastern Ukraine to Russia, and the removal of President Volodymyr Zelensky.

A U.S. Air Force B-52H “Stratofortress” Long-Range Strategic Bomber forward deployed to Morón Air Base in Southern Spain is currently tracing the Northwest African coast off Morocco, possibly participating in a joint exercise with the Royal Moroccan Air Force.

Senior officials at the White House have told Politico that they expect a framework for ending the ongoing conflict in Ukraine to be agreed to by all parties by the end of this month — and possibly “as soon as this week,” despite it not being discussed nearly at all so far with either Europe or Ukraine.

“What we are going to present [to Ukraine] is reasonable,” a senior White House official said, with the Trump Administration believing that Ukrainian President Zelensky, under pressure both on the battlefield and on the home front (due to a burgeoning corruption scandal), will have to accept what is offered in the agreement by Russia and the United States.

And as for the rest of Europe? “We don’t really care about the Europeans,” the official said, “It’s about Ukraine accepting.”

Speaking in favor of H-1B Visas at today’s U.S-Saudi Investment Forum in Washington, President Donald J. Trump said: “You can't come in, open a massive computer chip factory for billions and billions of dollars like is being done in Arizona, and think you're gonna hire people off an unemployment line to run it. They're gonna have to bring thousands of people with them and I'm gonna welcome those people. I love my conservative friends, I love MAGA, but this is MAGA.”

Axios has now confirmed reporting by the Financial Times about the hastily negotiated ceasefire being decided by White House Special Envoy Steve Witkoff and Russian Envoy Kirill Dmitriev, which would reportedly grant Russia parts of Eastern Ukraine it does not currently control and weaken the Ukrainian Armed Forces, in exchange for a security guarantee by the United States for Ukraine and Europe against future aggression by Russia.

The 28-point plan calls for Russia to gain full de facto control over the Donbas in Eastern Ukraine, which includes both Luhansk and Donetsk, and would be recognized by the U.S. and other countries - along with Crimea - as lawfully part of the Russian Federation, though this would not currently be required of Ukraine. A Ukrainian official claimed the plan also included limitations on the size of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and on its arsenal of long-range weapons in return for security guarantees from the United States.

Witkoff planned to visit Ankara on Wednesday and hold a trilateral meeting with Ukrainian President Zelensky and Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fida, but officials claim the meeting was postponed when it became clear that Zelensky was walking back from the understandings reached with Rustem Umerov - Zelensky's National Security Adviser who reportedly met with Witkoff last weekend in Miami - and is not interested in discussing the Trump Plan. Zelensky instead was traveling to Turkey on Wednesday with another plan drafted with European partners, which U.S. officials say will never be accepted by Russia.

President Donald J. Trump speaking earlier at the U.S-Saudi Investment Forum about Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and his Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent: “Rates are down despite the Fed. Scott [Bessent] you gotta work on this guy, he’s got some real mental problems. He has something wrong with him. I’ll be honest, I'd love to fire his ass. He should be fired. Guy is grossly incompetent and he should be sued for spending four billion dollars to build a little building. I’m building a ballroom that is going to cost a tiny fraction of that and it’s bigger than the whole thing put together. You gotta work on him Scott. The only thing Scott is blowing it on is the Fed. The rates are too high, Scott. And if you don't get it fixed fast, I'm going to fire your ass.”

U.S. Secretary of the Army Dan Driscoll met today with Ukraine’s Defense Minister Denys Shmyhal in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, to discuss continued and future cooperation in defense advancement and development, including in air-defense as well as long-range drone and missile systems, between Ukraine and the United States.

The stark contrast between this visit by Secretary Driscoll and what is currently going on behind-the-scenes with Witkoff, is quite telling of the absolute state of foreign policy under the Trump Administration.