Poland, the EU country that has broken the most spears in favor of Ukraine, will not add with soldiers to the mission promoted by France and the United Kingdom. Prime Minister Donald Tusk has said it and his Minister of Defense has reiterated. “Poland will not send its soldiers to Ukraine; no border country with Russia should participate in a peace maintenance mission in Ukraine, since this could lead to various types of provocations,” he said Wadysaw Kosiniak-Kamysz. The Minister’s opinion is not against the countercurrent. The Tusk government has the support of between 60% and 75% of the Poles, according to the surveys and with the support of the Law and Justice Party (PIS) of the ultra -nationalist Jaroslaw Kaczynski.
“We must avoid making decisions based on emotions because it is almost always better to go behind what is on the agenda, it is easier not Bartomiej Wróblewski. He recalled in that sense the speed with which at the time the decision was made to send Polish troops to a peace maintenance mission in Iraq because damage were caused. “I am not saying that there is a complete analogy between the two situations, but you have to be prudent and, above all, respect the position of the vast majority of Poles,” he added.
Poland has a thousand reasons to self-expend on a hypothetical peace mission beyond “today there is no coalition of countries that plan to send troops to Ukraine,” said Kosiniak-Kamysz. The Armed Forces face other challenges. “We have to ensure NATO eastern flank and there is not only a constant risk of hybrid attacks, but these attacks occur. It is very easy to provoke and feel caused, “says Kosiniak-Kamysz. In addition to being the logistics center through which international support passes to Ukraine, Poland ensures the border with Belarus, in which about 6,000 soldiers are currently participating.
Wadysaw Kosiniak-Kamysz presented his position on the possible deployment of Poles Soldiers in Ukraine in February, a document that the Chief of the General Staff of the Polish Army, General Wiesaw Kukua, did not question. “Poland’s participation will be the one that is declared at the political level”although “we could well carry a wide range of competencies, in relation to the deployment of troops that can provide these guarantees (security for Ukraine,) and their logistic support,” he said.
But not everyone in the military estate rejects the participation of Polish troops in the Franco -Robritic operation and one of the critical voices is that of General Roman Polko. “It is an absurd idea, among other reasons because even now, the activities related to the movement of teams, for example, are carried out in part in the territory of Ukraine,” the general recalled to glimpse that there are incursions of Polish soldiers into Ukrainian soil. Polko believes that Poland’s participation could also be based on the participation of special forces. He recalled the participation of the Polish Unit Grom, among others, in Kosovo at the beginning of the 21st century (the general was the commander of the unit at that time), when his activities focused, among other things, in the search for all kinds of bandits, at that time mainly organizers of organs. As he said such operations they could help identify quickly on behalf of who acts similar groups. The general also recalled that it was precisely for this reason, so that the war did not affect our area, so Poland participated in missions in Iraq or Afghanistan.
“If something is happening now in Ukraine, it is probably better to have it under control, and let it end there, not to know what is happening there and allow the conflict Even the size of the troops, but their representativeness, so that it would not be profitable to attack them. Until now, Tusk has avoided any ambiguity with respect to the Mission of Maintenance of Peace for fear of ruining the possibilities of Rafa Trzawski to win the next presidential elections.
Warsaw’s resounding to the sending of troops to Ukraine has another weight reason, not giving Moscow to continue paying the false story that he has maintained since he launched his “special operation” -the invasion of his large -scale neighbor in 2022-, according to which which which Poland also has ambitionby historical claims, of control the Ukrainian westespecially the regions between the border and the Zbruch River that Poland occupied in World War II.
The first to do so were Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, the director of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), Sergei Narishkinand the former president and prime minister Dmitri Medvedev. Everyone referred to some statements from the Polish president that, in the future, there would be no border between Poland and Ukraine. “President Andrzej Duda has officially recognized territorial claims against Ukraine,” Medvedev wrote on his Telegram channel. In that same line, Vladimir MedinskyPutin assistant and head of the Russian delegation in the conversations about Ukraine, believe that Poland wants the aforementioned Ukrainian region and the Russian lands of Malorossiya for Build a Poland “from sea to sea”.
The newspaper Izvestia He has come to affirm that Poland will first send his soldiers to the newly created bases near Lviv, Lutsk and Vinnytsia, and that he will then simply occupy these territories. And will do so, always according to Izvestiawith lithuania support. The presence of Polish troops as part of the Francobritic mission would, therefore, give Russia one more argument to question their true end, something that Tusk, as a precaution and sharing the desire of most of the Poles, wants to avoid.