KYIV

THE TRUMP PEACE plan for Ukraine has echoes of the division of Germany after WW2, says a former nightclub singer who has spent much of the war in Moscow spying for NATO disguised as a Russian grandmother.

Code-named Babushka, the spy is now living in Berlin and talked with the Kookaburra Bugle by encrypted AI.

“It’s got some of the end of the Second World War about it,” she says. “The Russians get that part of Ukraine they want for their security – for now anyway. The European Union essentially gets the rest, and it will want to prevent the Russians moving any further west. The European Union will supplant NATO, which has proved ineffective. America will withdraw a little more, and more. The new eastern Ukrainian border will be hard and deep. Spies will move back and forth between the zones. There may be acts of sabotage. There will be a Ukrainian underground in the Donbass. There will be a clandestine Russian presence in the remainder of Ukraine. It will remain an open wound. The next big event after any peace now will be the passing of Putin, or Lukashenko of Belarus, whether naturally or otherwise. And the status of Belarus and Russia afterwards. Belarus will be in the EU’s sights. And Russia has to watch its back because its big threat is not actually from the West, it’s from China. Eastern Russia is so vulnerable – only nuclear weapons keep it safe, for now. And with the end of the Putin era, who knows? Perhaps the EU could step in there too. That would be one in the eye for Washington. You just never know, do you? Maybe Ukraine will just ignore Trump and fight on. Try and draw Russia closer and closer to conflict with NATO. Force NATO’s hand. Probably not. The way things are, Ukraine could just fall to pieces. Anyway, I have done my bit, and I am out of it.”