According to Tusk, if there is a ceasefire, Polish troops will not be sent to Ukraine

Prime Minister Donald Tusk stated on Thursday that Poland has no intentions to send soldiers to Ukraine, despite rumors that Western nations would do so if a truce is agreed upon.

Tusk was conversing with Emmanuel Macron, the president of France, who was in Warsaw. If there is a truce and a peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia, diplomats indicated they would consider sending European soldiers to Ukraine.

“To cut off speculation about the potential presence of this or that country in Ukraine after reaching a ceasefire… decisions concerning Poland will be made in Warsaw and only in Warsaw,” Tusk stated. “For now, we do not plan such actions.”

According to Macron, Ukraine should determine what peace compromises it is willing to make, but the people of Europe as a whole must accept responsibility if Europe is to remain secure.

“(We have) the same desire to say to the Ukrainians that… nobody can discuss for the Ukrainians in their name the concessions to be made, the points to be raised, it is up to the Ukrainians to do it, but there is no security in Europe without the Europeans,” Macron said at a press conference.

European nations are eager to show Donald Trump, who will take office as president of the United States on January 20, that they are prepared to shoulder their fair part of the responsibility for bringing an end to the almost three-year conflict in Ukraine.

Just weeks before Poland replaces Hungary as the rotating EU president, the finance and foreign ministers of France, Germany, and Poland will also meet Thursday in Warsaw and Berlin.

The discussions in Poland and Berlin will focus on how to increase Europe’s defense funding, including through joint debt, and how to provide Ukraine with immediate military and financial help.