Future US president Donald Trump expects European countries to send their troops to Ukraine. According to the Wall Street Journal, he was to talk about it on 7 December in an interview with Volodymyr Zelenski and Emmanuel Macron.
Trump stated that he was not going to send US forces to Ukraine, but he wants European troops present there," he writes. During last week's talks with Macron in Paris, the President-elect was besides to state that Europe should play a key function in supporting Kiev.
According to the sources of the “WSJ”, Trump besides announced, as he repeatedly stressed publicly, that he would not support Ukraine's membership of NATO, but pointed out that he wanted “strong and well-armed” Ukraine.
The American president-elect was besides expected to push Europe to exert stronger force on China, forcing them to exert influence on Russia to end the war. The threat of imposing duties on Chinese products was to service as a tool of this pressure.
According to Trump's advisers quoted by the newspaper, despite the announcements of the immediate end of the war in Ukraine, the president-elect has no concrete plan to accomplish this, nor has he given this question a deeper thought. The diary states that the key decisions will only be made after the president has taken power, possibly after his conversation with Vladimir Putin.
In an interview with the weekly weekly “Time” published on Thursday Trump refused to answer the question whether he spoke to Putin after winning the election. He besides admitted that ending the war would be more hard than achieving peace in the mediate East. He powerfully criticized Ukraine's approval to strike inside Russia, calling this decision "stupid" and "crazy". However, according to the ‘WSJ’, any Trump advisers enjoyed this decision, recognising it as helpful in future talks with Russia.
According to the journal, the plan to put European forces on the territory Ukraine is inactive in its first phase, although Macron has already openly talked about this anticipation at the beginning of this year. This was besides to be the subject of talks between French and British representatives. However, it is not clear which countries would participate in the initiative, but that it would not be a NATO mission.
The head of MON Władysław Kosiniak-Kamish was asked on Thursday on TVP Info whether Polish troops would be sent to Ukraine. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenski stated on Monday that his country is considering the position of French president Emmanuel Macron, who previously felt that in the future it should not be excluded to send western troops to Ukraine.
Deputy Prime Minister said that erstwhile it comes to sending Polish troops to Ukraine they talk with 1 voice with Prime Minister Donald Tuski. "We are skeptical of specified a solution," he said.
As he added, the fact that present there is no plan to send Polish troops to Ukraine besides stems from the fact that there is inactive no plan to end the war peacefully.
According to the head of the MON, a akin plan will not be presented until U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is sworn in.
Prime Minister Donald Tusk, who met with French president Emmanuel Macron on Thursday, assured that Poland did not plan to have troops present in Ukraine after reaching a truce in this country. "The decisions concerning Polish actions will be made in Warsaw and only in Warsaw" - stressed the head of the government.
Source: PAP 
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