MOSCOW, February 17. /TASS/. Poland is not contemplating sending troops to Ukraine as part of a potential peacekeeping mission following the conclusion of hostilities, and this matter is settled, Prime Minister Donald Tusk stated before departing for Paris to attend an emergency summit on Ukraine.
"We do not foresee deploying Polish forces to Ukrainian territory," Tusk emphasized during a press conference broadcast by TVP Info.
"The issue is closed. Poland will continue to support Ukraine as it has before: organizationally, according to our financial capacity, and humanitarianly, if we are talking about humanitarian aid," he said. Poland will also offer logistical support to those countries that "physically provide such security guarantees to Ukraine.
On January 3, Politico reported that European countries are still discussing sending troops to Ukraine. It stated that French President Emmanuel Macron met with US President Donald Trump and Vladimir Zelensky in December. According to Politico, after that, Macron hoped to persuade Poland to send peacekeepers, but Tusk opposed it, and the negotiations stalled. Reuters reported that such a contingent could include up to 100,000 troops from 5-8 countries, including Germany, France, Italy, Great Britain, and Poland. Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov had previously stated that the presence of foreign military forces in Ukraine would have severely negative consequences, possibly even irreparable.