Warsaw to not send its troops to Ukraine, but ready to provide logistical support – Tusk
Poland is ready to provide logistical support to the peacekeeping mission in Ukraine, if a decision is made about it, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Wednesday.
"Poland's position is clear: Polish soldiers will not take direct part in the peacekeeping mission, no matter what it is called, but at the same time Poland is ready to provide logistical assistance," he said in a video message published on the X social network on Wednesday.
"We are doing this now, but if necessary (we are ready to do it) even in a larger volume," he noted.
Earlier, Polish Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz also said that Poland does not plan to send its troops to Ukraine.
European countries are divided on sending troops to Ukraine. At the EU summit on February 18, the leaders of Germany, Italy, Poland, and Spain expressed their reluctance to send peacekeeping forces to Ukraine. Later, French President Emmanuel Macron, together with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, developed a common position: the Europeans are ready to send tens of thousands of their troops to Ukraine after reaching a ceasefire with Russia. Macron has repeatedly emphasized this during his meetings in Washington, even trying to convince US President Donald Trump to become part of this plan. However, Trump has repeatedly stated that this is a matter for Europe, and he also said that the Russian side is not against the deployment of European troops into Ukraine. This statement was recently refuted by Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov.