French President Emmanuel Macron will arrive in Warsaw on Thursday to discuss a plan for a European peacekeeping mission to preserve Ukraine's sovereignty within the framework of a possible "peace agreement," Rzeczpospolita reports.

As the publication writes, the French president, after meeting in Paris last Saturday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and newly elected US President Donald Trump, will likely discuss possible joint participation of France and Poland in a peacekeeping mission in Ukraine during his visit to Warsaw.

As Camille Grand, NATO Assistant Secretary General for Defense Investment (2016-2022), says, Macron discussed the format of a possible peacekeeping mission in Ukraine with Trump.

"Emmanuel Macron conveyed to Donald Trump that Europe not only cannot remain on the sidelines of the negotiations between the US and Russia, since it has its own serious interests in the security sphere, but is also ready to participate in this process financially and, above all, to take on the risk of protecting Ukraine's sovereignty," said Grand.

The expert believes that there are three options for providing security guarantees to Ukraine. The first is the "German" one, which involves the country joining NATO without finally fixing the borders, as was the case with Germany in 1955. The second option is the "Israeli" one, which involves massive arms supplies to Ukraine even after the conclusion of peace. The third option is the "Korean" model: an international peacekeeping mission that has been guarding the demarcation line between South and North Korea for over 70 years. It is the third model, with the inclusion of elements of the first and second, that security guarantees for Kyiv will be based on, Grand believes.

The essence of the French proposal is a peacekeeping mission that would ensure that the Kremlin does not violate a possible ceasefire and the established demarcation line in the future. Macron first floated the idea of ​​sending NATO troops to Ukraine in February. However, he did not specify the conditions under which this would happen. He mentioned the idea more precisely during a meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in Paris on November 11. For the same purpose, he convened the leaders of the Nordic and Baltic countries (NB8) and Poland in Harpsund on November 27.

Elie Tenenbaum, an expert at the Paris-based IFRI Institute, who is working on a project for such a mission, believes that it could consist of five brigades (about 40,000 troops), and one of the brigades could be formed by Poland.

Grand shares her opinion, taking into account Poland's strategic location and role in modern Europe.

"With its rapidly growing military potential and geographical position, Poland is becoming an important part of such a plan. Hence Macron's visit to Warsaw," the expert explains.

In his opinion, the more countries participate in such a peacekeeping mission, the greater the chance that Russia will not dare to strike again at Ukraine. He also believes that it would be important for the United States (even symbolic), Germany (after the February elections), the Netherlands, Great Britain and France to participate in such an initiative.

The issue of France's participation is complicated by the political crisis in the country, however, as Rzeczpospolita writes, according to the Constitution of the Fifth Republic, the president, as the supreme commander-in-chief, himself decides on the use of armed forces, determines the direction of foreign policy and represents France at EU and NATO summits.

As previously reported, the Polish Prime Minister announced his visit to Kyiv in early 2025 and a return visit by President Zelenskyy to Warsaw.