Poland upholds its security guarantees for Ukraine
Poland will not send troops to Ukraine but will organise logistics and provide access to airbases, said a deputy defence minister at the EU defence ministers meeting in Copenhagen.
EU defence ministers discussed on Friday the security guarantees their countries could offer Ukraine to maintain a potential ceasefire or peace.
Pawel Zalewski told PAP that Poland is sticking to its decision not to send troops to Ukraine and not to participate in ground operations. "No one expects that today anyway," he added.
However, as Zalewski said, the coalition of the willing's guarantees envisage the presence of European troops in Ukraine and an operation to protect Ukrainian airspace.
"Poland will play a key role in this operation because it will enable establishing bases and facilities for the troops in Ukraine, it will organise their logistics, as well as provide access to Polish airbases for planes that will protect the sky over Ukraine," he said.
According to the deputy minister, without these, no security guarantees will be enforced.
Zalewski also said that Warsaw will not oppose the idea of organising EU training missions in Ukraine, but it will conduct training missions in Poland itself.(PAP)aj/mf
