Michal Szczerba would prefer to avoid the question. After Donald Trump dropped Volodymyr Zelensky, and with a rapprochement between the US and Russia taking shape, should Poland send soldiers to Ukraine to keep the peace? "A just and lasting peace is not possible without security guarantees for Ukraine. And we're still a long way from that. Poland has already defined its position. Our army will not go to Ukraine," said this MEP from the Civic Coalition (KO), the center-right party of Prime Minister Donald Tusk. In his eyes, Poland has a very specific role to play: to defend NATO's eastern flank, coordinate the logistics platform for military aid to the Ukraine, continue to supply weapons to Kyiv's forces and welcome the one million Ukrainian refugees living on its soil.

In Poland, which shares more than 500 kilometers of border with Ukraine as well as 200 kilometers with Russia, along the Kaliningrad enclave, and 400 kilometers with Belarus, a Kremlin ally, priorities have not changed: The war in Ukraine must end in a lasting peace that prevents Russia from attacking again.

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