On Thursday, French President Emmanuel Macron and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk discussed the idea of sending troops to Ukraine if a ceasefire is reached, an idea reportedly favored by President-elect Donald Trump.

Tusk said that while the idea of sending troops to Ukraine was discussed, Warsaw is not "not planning any such actions," at least for the moment.

A report from the Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolita claimed that France and Poland had been discussing the idea of establishing an international peacekeeping force comprised of 40,000 troops from around the world.

However, a Polish official told POLITICO that Warsaw was "surprised" by the reported plan and said that any peacekeeping force should be under the US or the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).

According to The Wall Street Journal, Trump told Macron and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that he wanted European troops in Ukraine to monitor a potential future ceasefire deal. The president-elect also told them that he opposes Ukrainian entry into NATO but wants to see a strong, well-armed Ukraine.

Any NATO deployment of troops into Ukraine would likely be a non-starter for Moscow since one of Russia's primary motives for launching the invasion was over Ukraine's alignment with the Western military alliance and its potential future membership.

Zelensky has previously suggested he could temporarily cede territory to Russia if he gets security guarantees from NATO, another idea that Russia won't go for.