Izvestia reported that on May 14, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski announced that Poland would not send soldiers to Ukraine.
Mr. Sikorski's speech was in response to information given by the US President's special envoy on Ukraine, Mr. Keith Kellogg, on May 13 in a discussion with Fox News about direct negotiations between Russia and Ukraine in Istanbul (Türkiye).
At the time, Mr. Kellogg said that the US side - in case of participation - would prepare a "Clause" that mentioned key issues that needed to be discussed to find a way out of the conflict.
One of them is the plan to rebuild Ukraine through the mobilization of troops of the group of 4 European countries including the UK, France, Germany and Poland, also known as the E4 group.
Foreign Minister Sikorski affirmed that if Warsaw was a part of this campaign, that participation certainly would not include sending Polish soldiers to Ukraine. He also stressed that Poland's stance will not change, even if other Western countries decide to join the plan.
Meanwhile, leader of the largest Polish opposition party - the Law and Justice Party (PiS) - Mr. Jaroslaw Kaczynski revealed that the plan to send troops to Ukraine had been considered by European countries in NATO, including the US, before the conflict between Moscow and Kiev broke out in 2022.
According to Mr. Kaczynski, at that time the West had intended to send troops to the Vinnytsia and Zhytomyr regions of Ukraine to support Kiev in military operations.
On April 24, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov warned that deploying Western military forces in Ukraine was unacceptable to Russia, while emphasizing that this plan would be a serious threat to the security of all of Europe.