-- POLITICAL AGENDA FOR TUESDAY: CZARZASTY BEFORE THE VERKHOVNA RADA, GOVERNMENT SESSION - 300LIVE:
https://300polityka.pl/pl/live

-- WLODZIMIERZ CZARZASTY, AFTER HIS VISIT TO GERMANY, HAS ADOPTED THE MOST EURO-ENTHUSIASTIC STANCE ON THE POLITICAL SCENE; HE IS IN KYIV AS OF YESTERDAY AND WILL ADDRESS THE VERKHOVNA RADA. WHAT HE SAID YESTERDAY: You will enter the EU. This is the news I bring on behalf of all of democratic Europe.
I want Poland to be a 90% hub at the time of Ukraine's reconstruction.
Czarzasty on Poland's aid to Ukraine in its EU accession efforts: This is not a favour.
https://300polityka.pl/pl/live/2026-02-23

-- CZARZASTY IS TO BE THE ONLY WESTERN LEADER TO ADDRESS THE UKRAINIAN VERKHOVNA RADA ON THE FOURTH ANNIVERSARY OF RUSSIA'S ATTACK ON UKRAINE:
https://wydarzenia.interia.pl/kraj/news-czarzasty-w-ukrainie-przemowi-przed-rada-najwyzsza-dyplomaty,nId,22604050

-- CROWDS AT MATERUSZ MORAWIECKI'S LATEST FIELD MEETING:
https://x.com/MorawieckiM/status/2025988304152277336?s=20

-- ONLY THREE POINTS DIFFERENCE - 29 TO 26, SHOWED AN IPSOS POLL FOR THE LIQUIDATED TVP INFO:
https://www.tvp.info/91748458/sondaz-partyjny-pis-blisko-ko-dwie-konfederacje-wysoko-koalicjanci-psl-i-polska-2050-poza-sejmem-notowania-partii-politycznych-luty-2026

-- RZECZPOSPOLITA APOLOGIZES TO SZYMON HOŁOWNIA FOR JACEK NIZINKIEWICZ'S ARTICLE: “Our intention to address this important issue on the International Day of Mental Health Awareness and write that mental health problems can also affect people in the public eye does not excuse us. As the Editor-in-Chief of Rzeczpospolita, I apologize to Szymon Hołownia and to our readers for a publication that should not have taken place.”
https://www.rp.pl/komentarze/art43852341-redaktor-naczelny-rzeczpospolitej-przepraszam-szymona-holownie

-- "THE BOSS DOES WHAT HE LIKES MOST, HE LABELS PEOPLE WITH NAMES” - SAYS AN IMPORTANT PIS POLITICIAN TO AGATA KONDZIŃSKA IN GW: “- The boss does what he likes most, he labels people with names – says an important PiS politician. And he describes how it usually happens in similar situations: – Kaczyński has his strategy, he wants to bet on someone, but he doesn't want to be alone with that decision. He summons the main stakeholders, and they bombard him with arguments, promoting their favorite: why him, and not another. The same is done by successive factions and groups. These one-on-one meetings are better because the participants are more honest, they behave differently than in a large group when everyone is listening. And everyone leaves the meeting convinced that the arguments were valid and reached the chairman, who undoubtedly shared their opinion.”

-- THE DATE FOR PRESENTING THE CANDIDATE HAS NOT YET BEEN SET. MY INTERLOCUTORS INDICATE THE FIRST TWO WEEKENDS OF MARCH AS POSSIBLE – KONDZIŃSKA FURTHER IN GW: “The date for presenting the candidate has not yet been set. My interlocutors indicate the first two weekends of March as possible. Kaczyński himself announced, moreover, that the matter would be completely clear in March. He also added that he hopes that “those who will be disappointed will accept it, because it is simply a rational decision in the existing situation.”
https://wyborcza.pl/7,75398,32619555,kaczynski-szuka-kandydata-na-premiera-na-nowogrodzkiej-nie.html

-- IF SOMEONE SAYS: THIS IS NOT OUR WAR, THEY SHOULD LOOK AT HOW THESE FOUR YEARS HAVE TRANSFORMED THE WEST. THE WORLD HAS BECOME A LESS STABLE, LESS SECURE, AND LESS FRIENDLY PLACE. AND PEACE IS STILL FAR AWAY – MICHAŁ SZUŁDRZYŃSKI IN RZ.

-- FOUR YEARS AFTER THE RUSSIAN WAR AGAINST UKRAINE, A TRUE PRO-RUSSIAN FORCE HAS GROWN IN POLAND – SZUŁDRZYŃSKI CONTINUES: “In Poland too, Russia has become a convenient bogeyman. And while Donald Tusk and Jarosław Kaczyński futilely accused each other of who truly served Russia and who was its more consistent opponent, a truly pro-Russian party, Grzegorz Braun's Confederation of Polish Crown, has grown to ten percent support. This is perhaps the biggest surprise on this fourth anniversary – although for most Poles it seems obvious who the aggressor is and who is the victim, the faction that claims it is not true that Russia attacked and that the West is a greater threat than Moscow is growing in almost every subsequent poll.”
https://www.rp.pl/komentarze/art43852341-michal-szuldrzynski-cztery-lata-wojny-codzienny-egzamin-dla-zachodu

-- OUR POLICY TOWARDS BELARUS WAS EITHER AN EXPRESSION OF EXTREME NAIVETE OR STUPIDITY, OR ELSE THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A MOSCOW SCENARIO – WITOLD JURASZ IN ONE TE: “Indeed, Lukashenka could never have been drawn to the Western side. However, no one even postulated that. The point is that it was possible to counteract his complete, not partial, shift to Russia's side. Poland, with a few exceptions, never did this, more often trying to narrow his room for maneuver rather than broaden it. As a result, when it was completely narrowed down and Lukashenka truly became Putin's lackey (which he was not at all until 2020), Russian soldiers ended up in Belarus. The problem is that foreign policy is not limited solely to good and evil, but to what is or is not profitable. As the author of an article in 'The Guardian' demonstrates based on CIA sources, what we did was, in the meantime, extremely unprofitable both for us and for Ukraine. Our policy towards Belarus was either an expression of extreme naivete or stupidity, or else the implementation of a Moscow scenario. It is time to draw conclusions from this. One of them is that since we unfortunately contributed to Putin being able to attack Ukraine, perhaps we owe Ukraine something after all.”
https://www.onet.pl/informacje/onetwiadomosci/do-decyzji-o-inwazji-na-ukraine-pchnely-putina-dwa-czynniki-jurasz-oto-lekcja-dla/mwlytjc,79cfc278

-- ON THE DAMAGE CAUSED BY GRAFFITI ARTISTS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE INCIDENT WITH TOMASZ KAMMEL – JAROSŁAW OSSOWSKI IN GW: “This is another brazen incident by graffiti artists in recent days. On Saturday, February 14th, a group of masked individuals in white overalls stopped a metro train at the Stokłosy station in Ursynów and quickly defaced two carriages. The men were well-organized. They urged each other on with shouts in Polish: “Come on, come on!”, “Minute”. They paid no mind to passengers filming them with their phones. The enormous scale of vandalism is illustrated by data from Koleje Mazowieckie. As we have established, the company spent PLN 31 million on cleaning trains from graffiti in 2023-24 and the first quarter of 2025. And this is just one Polish carrier.”
https://warszawa.wyborcza.pl/warszawa/7,54420,32619366,grafficiarze-staja-sie-coraz-bardziej-bezczelni-po-ataku-na.html

-- BIRTHDAYS: Janusz Zemke, Krzysztof Garbaczewski.