French President Emmanuel Macron will discuss with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk the deployment of a postwar peacekeeping force in Ukraine when the two meet in Warsaw on Thursday.

Axar.az reports that this was confirmed by an EU diplomat and a French official to Politico.

When asked about a Polish media report in the Rzeczpospolita newspaper claiming the two countries were talking over a potential 40,000-strong peacekeeping force composed of troops from foreign countries,the European diplomat confirmed this.The diplomat did not elaborate on which countries the soldiers might come from.

However, a senior Polish official said they were surprised by Macron's reported proposal.

"This is not a formula that would allow us to take such a decision," the official said, adding that peacekeeping missions should be decided under the United Nations or the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, not a bilateral discussion with the French president. Sending Polish troops to Ukraine "would only make sense under a NATO format," they added.

The publication noted that the deployment of foreign troops to Ukraine could guarantee that Russian President Vladimir Putin would not initiate further conflict in the future.