Kosiniak-Kamysz: We will not send soldiers to Ukraine, Poland has other tasks

Deputy Prime Minister, head of the Ministry of National Defense Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz repeated on Wednesday that Poland would not send soldiers to Ukraine. He noted that our country has other tasks, including Protection of the NATO eastern flank and infrastructure and logistics protection for a possible peace mission.

During the Wednesday conference in Mińsk Mazowiecki, Kosiniak-Kamysz was asked, among others What to do so that the situation does not repeat when Polish representatives do not participate in conversations on the end of the war and that PiS politicians say that Poland will not send soldiers to Ukraine.

– We will not send Polish soldiers to Ukraine. This is the government's position not for a week, but for many months – said the deputy prime minister, head of the Ministry of National Defense. According to him, this position is shared not only by the government coalition, but all Poles. He added that the fact that Poland will not send its troops to Ukraine does not mean that it does not participate in the so -called Coalitions of volunteers, i.e. states supporting Ukraine attacked by Russia.

– We also have other tasks to be performed and it is now about relations with our allies who understand the attitude of Poland as much as possible – he noted. Among the tasks of Poland, he mentioned, among others Protection of the NATO eastern flank, the Polish -Belarusian border, where – as he added – “5-6 thousand soldiers are involved in protection all the time”, as well as infrastructure and logistic protection for the “possible peace mission”.

– In this trial, dozens, hundreds, thousands of Polish soldiers will be involved in the territory of Poland to secure allied army staying in Poland or, possibly secure allied troops that would be stationed in Ukraine – said the head of the Ministry of National Defense.

He emphasized that he had repeatedly talked to the defense ministers of France, Germany, Italy and Great Britain about the role of Poland as a state securing a possible mission of allies in Ukraine. As he said, commanders of the French and British army, “who undertook to organize the philosophy of the” Coalitions willing “, understand the role of Poland well.”

The “Coalition of the Volunteers” was established on March 2 on the initiative of the Prime Minister of Great Britain Keira Starmer in order to develop a comprehensive support plan for Ukraine. It includes 33 states. (PAP)

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